Afghanistan Permanent Rep to UN Calls Depriving Girls of Education a National Betrayal

Nasir Ahmad Faiq, the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, said that depriving girls of education is a national betrayal. Faiq added that Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls are being deprived of education at schools.

It has been over a year since the Taliban have closed secondary schools for girls in Afghanistan.

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sunday that a year of opportunity to get education in Afghanistan has been lost and will never come back.