Taliban Education Ministry officials and intelligence agency personnel visited six named schools in Kabul and ordered administrators to stop registering girls a
Summary
Taliban Education Ministry officials and intelligence agency personnel visited six named schools in Kabul and ordered administrators to stop registering girls above sixth grade, halting a UNICEF-backed enrolment program for girls in grades 10–12. The program had already begun, equipment and materials had been distributed, and girls had collected documents and attempted to register before being turned away. One school official confirmed the process was "completely canceled" due to internal Taliban disagreements. This is the latest enforcement of the Taliban's ban on girls' secondary education, in place since September 2021.
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Legal classification
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Denial of girls' education · primary
CEDAW Art. 10; ICESCR Art. 13; CRC Art. 28
Assigned from the reported conduct and confirmed on review.
Ethnic / minority persecution
ICCPR Art. 26, 27; CERD
Assigned from the reported conduct and confirmed on review.
Violence against children
CRC Art. 19, 6
Assigned from the reported conduct and confirmed on review.
Also coded as: Discrimination, Children's rights
Sources
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Afghanistan Human Rights Center, “Taliban Education Ministry officials and intelligence agency personnel visited six named schools in Kabul and ordered administrators to stop registering girls a”, entry AHRC-2026-0901-KAB-02, grade: Single-source, 2026-09-01. Retrieved 7 October 2026.