Millions of girls denied education in Afghanistan

Students at the 'Mansoor Rasa Mohammad' private school in Kabul in April. The Taliban only allows girls to attend school until sixth grade Afghanistan is currently the only country in the world where girls are officially banned from secondary and higher education. According to information the BBC has obtained from Unicef, around 2.6 million girls in Afghanistan are now unable to attend school beyond Grade 6, with a further 400,000 reaching secondary-school age each year. By 2030, more than four