Taliban Bars 2.4 Million Afghan Girls From School, Erasing Decades of Progress

by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Washington D.C. Bureau ChiefKABUL, AFGHANISTAN (Worthy News) – Five years after the Taliban returned to power, an estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain barred from secondary education, marking one of the most sweeping reversals of women’s rights anywhere in the world.Afghanistan is now the only country where girls and women are formally prohibited from attending secondary schools and universities, according to UNESCO, which on Tuesday again called on the Ta