The Fight for Afghan Women’s Education | Roquiya Sayeq | TEDxChicago | Victory Afghanistan

Today is Day 1 of the #OpenSchoolDoor one-month campaign for Afghan women and girls.Over 2.2 million Afghan girls are banned from secondary and higher education. The Taliban have closed girls’ schools — making Afghanistan the only country in the world to do so.For more than 4 years (since March 2022), girls above grade 6 have been kept out of school — now entering the fifth year of this ban, with thousands of days stolen from their education.While Taliban leaders send their own daughters abroad

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