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UNESCO warns Afghanistan could lose a generation of professionals if ban on girls’ education continues

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Source: Voice of America

A U.N. report, released in November, stated that the Taliban ban had excluded an estimated 2.4 million girls from secondary education, while no girls have enrolled in universities in 2026.

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