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Taliban have deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling, UN says
Afghan school girls attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, March 25, 2023
THE Taliban government has deliberately deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling, a United Nations agency said today.
Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans female secondary and higher education.
The fundamentalist group, which took power in 2021, barred education for girls above Year 6 because members said it did not comply with their interpretation of Islamic law.
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