Afghan Women Education Crisis Deepens as Pakistan Deports Thousands Back to Taliban Rule

Afghan refugee girls in Pakistan sitting in an informal classroom, facing deportation back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan where the women education crisis has banned girls from schools above grade 6

The Afghan women education crisis has reached a devastating new phase in 2026, as Pakistan aggressively deports hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees  including educated women and school-going girls  directly into a country where the Taliban ban girls from education above grade 6. With over 146,000 Afghans already deported from Pakistan this year alone, the Afghan women education crisis in Pakistan is now intersecting with one of the worst refugee crises in the world. International organisations including UNESCO Afghanistan, UNICEF, and the UN Human Rights Council have all sounded urgent…

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