Broken Promises, Displaced Afghan Girls

Publication language
English
Pages
2pp
Date published
02 Mar 2017
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
Children & youth, Conflict, violence & peace, Education, Gender
Countries
Afghanistan

This document is a briefing paper from February 2017 about Education in Emergencies in Afghanistan.

Last year, more than 600,000 people were newly displaced in Afghanistan; half of whom were boys and girls and a large number of them are out-of-school. Education must now be acknowledged as a humanitarian priority in Afghanistan that warrants a coordinated and well-resourced response.