Afghanistan, Sept. 25 -- Afghan girls have endured significant education discrimination due to the Taliban's formal ban on secondary education, with orders for re-opening schools to only boys, while ordering girl students to remain at home for over a year.

September 18 marked the first anniversary of girls' education deprivation, one of the Taliban's hard-line policies seen as "shameful" and "tragic" by the United Nations (UN), affecting millions of young Afghan girls.

The political unrest in Afghanistan resulted in the dissolution of some youth movements, but others, like the Afghan Youth Empowerment Camp (AYEC), a youth-led organization with the mission of enhancing youth capacity, particularly that of women and girls, took on the tas...