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Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and ...
On March 21, 2022, the Taliban promised to reopen all schools in Afghanistan, seemingly ending the temporary ban it had placed on girls attending secondary school since its return to power seven ...
Afghanistan is now the only country on Earth to not permit education of girls in schools Afghanistan marks two years of women and girls being banned from schools: ‘Hopeless and broken’ Skip to ...
Afghan women cannot be heard in public, even if it is to offer prayers, and have been banned from schools, workplaces, salons, gyms and national parks under the current Taliban rule. Arpan Rai reports
The ban did not affect primary schools, but girls' attendance in those schools appeared to also have fallen significantly. [10] [11] [12] In March 2022, the Taliban abruptly reversed their plans to allow girls to resume their secondary school education (defined as grade seven and upwards in Afghanistan). With the exception of the current cohort ...
Afghanistan is now the only country in the world where women and girls are banned from secondary and higher education - some one and a half million have been deliberately deprived of schooling ...
[5] [6] [7] Soon after the Taliban take took the country in August 2021, they banned girls from secondary education. Some provinces still allow secondary education for girls despite the ban. [8] [9] In December 2022, the Taliban government also prohibited university education for females in Afghanistan, sparking protests and international ...
The Communists abolished patriarchal customs still prevalent in rural areas, such as the bride price, and raised the age of consent to marriage for girls to sixteen. [57] In rural Afghanistan, gender seclusion was a strong part of local culture. To attend school girls would have to leave home, and school was therefore seen as deeply dishonorable.