New York, NY : Center on Cooperation International, 2016.
27 pages ; 30 cm.
Summary: “While in power, the Afghan Taliban closed girls’ schools and restricted other forms of non-religious education. Today, that same movement has issued policies supporting education as a “basic human need,” including for girls “within the scope of Sharia and Afghan traditions.” The Taliban now sometimes prefer to control schools rather than to close them, at least partly in response to the massive demand for education that has developed in Afghanistan over decades of war. However…”—(page 6).