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I spent a decade helping Afghan girls make educational progress − and now the Taliban are using these 3 reasons to keep them out of school

  • Written by Enayat Nasir, Research Assistant in Educational Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageEducation for girls in Afghanistan is banned after the sixth grade.Omer Abrar via Getty Images

Before the collapse of the Afghan government in August 2021, girls’ access to education was steadily improving.

In 2019, the Ministry of Education introduced the country’s first Girls Education Policy, known as the GEP. This policy sought to...

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