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Support Girl's Education in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls’ secondary education. In Afghanistan, 75% of girls are out of school. Since the Taliban took over the country in 2021, they have banned girls’ secondary education — forbidding nearly 1.4 million girls from going to school past grade 6. The Taliban uses laws and policies to deprive millions of girls and women of their rights, a system of oppression called gender apartheid. Women and girls are unable to go to school, work or participate in public life. Despite their dire circumstances, women and girls are resisting by learning in secret and speaking out against the Taliban’s oppression.

“Afghan girls are looking towards world leaders to act immediately and push the Taliban to open girls’ schools. No society can advance if the rights of women and girls are not fully guaranteed." M. Rahim Jami