Taliban Education Ministry officials and intelligence agents ordered six named Kabul schools to halt a UNICEF-backed enrollment process for girls in grades 10–1
Summary
Taliban Education Ministry officials and intelligence agents ordered six named Kabul schools to halt a UNICEF-backed enrollment process for girls in grades 10–12, effectively barring secondary-school-age girls from registration. The affected schools include Om al-Banin, Naswan Amini, Sayed al-Shuhada, Mehrabuddin, Sardar Kabuli, and Asif Mayel High Schools.
Where
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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 agents ordered six named Kabul schools to halt a UNICEF-backed enrollment process for girls in grades 10–1”, entry AHRC-2026-0920-KAB-01, grade: Single-source, 2026-09-20. Retrieved 7 October 2026.