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| Afghanistan |
| Nearly half of Afghan children are not in school |
| 2018-06-04 |
| [IsraelTimes] Nearly half of Afghanistan’s children are not attending school because of war, poverty and other factors, a new report shows. The study, released by the Education Ministry and the UN children’s agency, says that 3.7 million, or 44 percent, of all school-age children are not attending school. It marks the first time since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 that the rate of attendance has declined, following years of steady gains in education for boys as well as girls, who were banned from attending school under the Taliban ...Arabic for students... The survey says girls account for 60% of those being denied an education. "Business as usual is not an option for Afghanistan if we are to fulfill the right to education for every child," Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s Afghanistan representative, says in a statement. "When children are not in school, they are at an increased danger of abuse, exploitation and recruitment." Girls’ education is still frowned upon in much of the conservative Moslem country, and is banned in the steadily expanding areas controlled by the Taliban. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 44 percent, of all school-age children are not attending school So, just the boys then? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-06-04 15:56 |
| #4 Well if you include classes on bomb-making and IED planting... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-06-04 10:16 |
| #3 They were attending school before? When did this start happening? |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-06-04 10:05 |
| #2 Only 60%? |
| Posted by: KBK 2018-06-04 08:09 |
| #1 Girls’ education is still frowned upon in much of the conservative Moslem country, and is banned in the steadily expanding areas controlled by the Taliban. Which is just the mirror to American progressive education, that which is to suppress male education to include drugging and punishing normative social behavior. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-04 08:00 |