KABUL (UNAMA) said on Wednesday.
The schools’ closure is affecting access to education for more than 20,500 girls, according to the UN mission, which said direct threats from armed opposition groups against schooling for girls had hit approximately 17,000 female students.
A statement from UNAMA on the start of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence said Afghanistan’s eastern region remained the most acutely affected, whereby at least 13,000 girls no longer go to school due to threats, closures and direct . . .
