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Fund seeks to elevate Afghan girls' voices in bid for higher education

Education Cannot Wait said Afghan girls are the "furthest behind" in efforts to erase poverty and reduce inequality.

Two girls in Afghanistan's in Sar-e-Pul Province in Feb. 2021, a half-year before the Taliban takeover.
Two girls in Afghanistan's in Sar-e-Pul Province in Feb. 2021, a half-year before the Taliban takeover. (AN/Firoz Sidiqy/Unsplash)

A U.N. fund for children's education protested Afghan girls' inability to go to school on the Taliban's second anniversary of its takeover of Afghanisan.

Education Cannot Wait, the United Nations' global fund for education in emergencies and lengthy crises, said on Tuesday that Afghan girls are the "furthest behind" in efforts to erase poverty and reduce inequality.

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