UNESCO warns Afghanistan could lose a generation of professionals if ban on girls’ education continues
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A U.N. report, released in November, stated that the Taliban ban had excluded an estimated 2.4 million girls from secondary education, while no girls have enrolled in universities in 2026.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same UNESCO warning about losing a generation of professionals due to the Taliban ban on girls' education, adding further figures from a related U.N. report, which does not conflic
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