When were Afghan girls barred from returning to secondary school?
The restriction dates from September 2021, when girls above primary grades were not permitted to return to formal secondary education. The exclusion has continued and expanded the number of affected adolescent girls over time.
What the figure or term means
UNESCO and UNICEF reported 2.2 million affected girls by January 2026.
Education figures should not be used to erase home, community, online, or alternative learning efforts, which are not equivalent to full formal access.
State both the policy date and the date of any affected-person estimate.
Use the source publication date when connecting an observance or historical event to a current statistic or appeal.
How to use this information responsibly
Events and observances help readers connect Afghanistan’s present humanitarian conditions with seasons, public dates, education, health, displacement, culture, and recent shocks.
Lunar-calendar dates can vary, historical events have multiple perspectives, and early disaster figures are revised. This library states dates carefully and links to primary or institutional records.
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