Afghan women learn how to read the Koran in a madrasa or religious school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct 8 last year.KABUL - Afghanistan's school year started on Tuesday , the education ministry said, as the UN children's agency renewed calls for teenage girls to be able to rejoin the classroom.
Since then primary schools for girls have stayed open but most high schools have been closed and the Taliban barred female students from university in December, provoking international outcry and protests in some Afghan cities. "As the new school year in Afghanistan begins, we rejoice in the millions of boys and girls returning to primary school classrooms. Yet, we are deeply disappointed not to see adolescent girls going back to their classrooms as well," said Fran Equiza, Unicef's Afghanistan representative, in a tweet.
In Kunduz province, one of a handful of northern provinces where some girls' high schools had quietly remained open last year, authorities said they were closed for now.
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