2.4 Million Afghan Girls Are Locked Out of Secondary School, Five Years After the Taliban Took Power

Five years after the Taliban’s return to power, the doors to secondary school remain shut for millions of Afghan girls — and the numbers keep climbing.

An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls are now locked out of secondary education. Afghanistan is the only country on earth that legally bars girls from studying past primary school.

A generation that once counted nearly 1 million girls in secondary classrooms now watches those doors stay locked.

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