Afghanistan, April 8 -- The UN has warned that Afghanistan's ongoing ban on girls' education threatens the country's social and economic future.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has issued a warning about the long-term consequences of the continued ban on girls' education in Afghanistan. According to OCHA's latest report from January 2025, approximately 1.5 million Afghan girls have entered their third consecutive year without access to education. The organization highlights that this lack of education poses a severe threat to the country's future social and human development.
The OCHA report stresses that the ongoing denial of education puts girls at risk of illiteracy, child labor, forced mar...