Afghan Schools Closing Due To Violence – Human Rights Watch

Spreading violence in Afghanistan is forcing many schools to close, undermining fragile gains in education for young girls in a country where millions of girls have never been to school, said a Human Rights Watch report released on Tuesday.....
The rights organisation said after more than a decade and a half of international intervention in Afghanistan, corruption, insecurity, waste, and other problems, around two-thirds of Afghan girls still do not go to school.

The HRW said, inspite of the challenges, millions of children have received education they would not have otherwise, but those gains are now threatened by spreading violence and declining international funding.
HRW in the report said: “as security in the country has worsened, the progress that had been made toward the goal of getting all girls into school may be heading in reverse — a decline in girls’ education in Afghanistan.

“In the most insecure areas of the country, schools are closing at an alarming rate due to insecurity.”

HRW said in Kandahar, for example, at least 130 out of 435 schools were closed over the summer.

Access to education can be undermined by a number of factors, ranging from a limited number of qualified teachers and community opposition to a lack of a toilet and other sanitary facilities.