“This is a tragic, shameful, and entirely avoidable anniversary,” said Markus Potzel, acting head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan.
UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools 'shameful'
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Education for all is not only a basic human right, it is the key to progress and development of a nation,” said Potzel, the U.N. envoy.
U.N. slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan's Taliban
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