UN: Afghan Girls Still Strive for A Future with Hope Despite Restrictions

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UN Women in Afghanistan has said that Afghan girls, despite living through one of the most severe crises in women’s rights, still strive with hope and determination to build their future.

The organization wrote in a post on the social network X on Sunday (October 12): “Afghan girls dream of classrooms, shaping their own futures. Despite growing up in the most severe women’s rights crisis, they are hopeful and determined.”

UN Women emphasized that it stands alongside Afghan girls and continues to invest in their abilities and their future.

This comes while, after the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, secondary and higher education for girls in Afghanistan has been banned; a decision that has made the country the only place in the world with such a restriction.

This ban has led to the spread of depression, isolation, and an increase in forced marriages among girls, and has plunged the future of Afghan women and girls into darkness.