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Afghan girls read the holy Koran at a Madrassa in August 2024. (Photo credit: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images October 11 marks the International Day of the Girl Child, a day designated by the U.N. General Assembly to strengthen the work towards empowering girls. As the resolution establishing the day emphasizes, “empowerment of and investment in girls, which are critical for economic growth, the achievement of all Millennium Development Goals, including the eradication of poverty and extreme poverty, as well as the meaningful participation of girls in decisions that affect them, are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights.” At the centre of the empowerment of girls is education. Education is an investment which can help build prosperous, healthy and equitable societies. It can also break the cycle of poverty and reduce inequalities. Over the last 30 years, significant progress has been made to ensure that girls have access to education, with nearly 91 million more girls in primary school and 136 million more in secondary school. Furthermore, the last three decades have seen women’s enrollment in tertiary education triple to 139 million. This progress must be recognized. However, some 133 million girls remain out of school. In 2025, there is no worse place for girls’ education than Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Since taking over Afghanistan, the Taliban have been imposing restrictions on girls and women to exclude them from all aspects of their lives. As identified by UNICEF, the ban on girls’ secondary education has already excluded around 2.2 million adolescent girls. If the ban persists, UNICEF estimates that by 2030, nearly four million girls will be denied the chance to pursue secondary education, also excluding them from any chance to…

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