Teenage girls barred from secondary school as new academic year starts in Afghanistan, Kabul - 25 Mar 2023
Schoolgirls attending up to primary grade classes sit in a classroom at the start of the new academic year in Kabul, Afghanistan, 25 March 2023. As schools reopen for a new academic year across the country, hundreds of thousands of teenage girls will not be able to go to classes after Taliban authorities banned female students from secondary education. UNICEF urged authorities to lift the ban on girls' and women's further education in a statement on 21 March 2023.