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UNESCO: Taliban Have Banned 1.4M Girls From Schools

UNESCO: Taliban Have Banned 1.4M Girls From Schools

Above: Afghan women beg in the snow, with a child, on the Kabul road south to Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan, on January 17, 2022. Image copyright: Scott Peterson/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Spin

The Taliban are silencing women and girls, confining them to homes, and robbing them of their futures. They have effectively turned women into ghosts within their own country. This systematic erasure threatens to leave a generation of women in darkness.

The UN and other global actors have been complicit in erasing Afghan women from crucial discussions about their country's future. They are repeating past mistakes to appease the Taliban and legitimize policies that have virtually erased women from public life.

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 57% chance that Afghanistan will experience a successful coup d'etat before 2040, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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