UNICEF to expand 21,000 classes for children across Afghanistan

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said that it is expanding its country-wide community-based education classes throughout 2023 to reach thousands of children, particularly girls who are effectively barred from secondary school by the Taliban since September 2021.

Previously, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell had called this decision by the Taliban de facto authorities “unjustified and shortsighted” which marked in the steady erosion of girls’ rights in the country.