Five years into Taliban rule, UNESCO has placed a precise and damning number on one of the world's most deliberate acts of exclusion: 2.4 million Afghan girls barred from secondary education in the only country on earth where such a ban is written into law. What was built across two decades — classrooms, teachers, a million girls in school — has been methodically dismantled, not by poverty or conflict alone, but by policy. The question UNESCO now presses upon the world is whether a generation can be lost in plain sight, and whether silence in the face of that loss becomes its own form of compl
UNESCO: 2.4M Afghan girls still barred from secondary education under Taliban
2.4 million Afghan girls are systematically excluded from secondary and higher education, losing access to fundamental rights and economic opportunities.