UNITED NATIONS
\nRestrictions on girls\u2019 education and women\u2019s employment in Afghanistan could leave the country with a deficit of over 25,000 female teachers and health workers by 2030, the UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
\nThe agency said the crisis is already depriving children of learning and healthcare, while also weakening Afghanistan\u2019s economy and the essential services that depend on trained women professionals. A new UNICEF analysis, The Cost of Inaction on Girls\u2019 Education and Women\u2019s Labour Force Participation in Afghanistan, found that female representation in the civil service fell from 21 per cent to 17.7 per cent between 2023 and 2025.
\nMore than one million girls have been denied their right to learn since Taliban authorities banned girls from secondary education in September 2021. If that remains in place until 2030, more than two million girls will have been deprived of education beyond primary school in a country that already has one of the lowest female literacy rates in the world.
\n\u201cAfghanistan cannot afford to lose future teachers, nurses, doctors, midwives and social workers, who sustain essential services. This will be the reality if girls continue to be excluded from education,\u201d said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. \u201cWe urge the de facto authorities to lift the ban on secondary education for girls and call on the international community to remain committed to supporting girls\u2019 rights to learn.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS Restrictions on girls\u2019 education and women\u2019s employment in Afghanistan could leave the country with a deficit of over 25,000 female teachers and health workers by 2030, the UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday. The agency said the crisis is already depriving children of learning and healthcare, while also weakening Afghanistan\u2019s economy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-543549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n