Melissa Fleming, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, has warned of the dire consequences of keeping 2.6 million Afghan girls barred from secondary education. She called for urgent international action to end the educational ban imposed on girls in Afghanistan.
Speaking on Friday, the UN official emphasized that the continued deprivation of schooling is denying an entire generation the opportunity to progress and will severely undermine Afghanistan's long-term development.
In her remarks, Fleming highlighted a recent joint report by UNESCO and UNICEF regarding the state of children's education in the country. The report reveals that 53 percent of primary school-age children in Afghanistan currently lack access to formal education.
Both UN agencies have demanded the full restoration of education rights for Afghan girls and women, urging the removal of policies that degrade educational quality and reverse the gains of the past two decades.
Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where female education beyond the sixth grade is officially prohibited. These extensive curbs have deprived hundreds of thousands of young women of personal growth, independence, and employment opportunities.
Source: UN Under-Secretary-General statement
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