Women and girls education

About 3.5 million children are out of school, 75% of them girls – not just because of violence but also a lack of female teachers, early marriage and social restrictions.

Afghan provincial officials reported a rise in girls’ enrolment rates across eastern Nangarhar Province, despite constant attacks and threats by Islamic State and other militant groups in the area.

Sixteen years after the US-led military intervention that ousted the Taliban government, an estimated two-thirds of Afghan girls do not go to school.