UNICEF: One-Third of Children in Afghanistan Are Out of School

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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says that one out of every three children in Afghanistan does not attend school. According to the organization, 60 percent of these children are girls.

UNICEF stated that in cooperation with the World Bank in Asia, it supports the creation of educational classes for adolescent girls.

The organization emphasized that it helps girls in Afghanistan who have been deprived of their right to attend school to continue their education through "community-based classes."

This data is being published at a time when, since the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, women and girls have been banned from receiving education. The group has also recently shut down a number of local educational classes in several provinces.