{"id":21346,"date":"2026-09-08T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/afghanistan-girls-secret-schools-secondary-education-taliban\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:30:16","slug":"afghanistan-girls-secret-schools-secondary-education-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/afghanistan-girls-secret-schools-secondary-education-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Girls Turn to Secret Schools After Being Denied Secondary Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The denial of secondary education to girls in Afghanistan has forced some of them to attend secret schools in order to preserve literacy and continue their studies.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News reported on Monday, Sept. 16, that these girls have continued their education clandestinely after the Taliban returned to power in 2021 and formal education routes were shut off, despite fears of arrest and punishment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the girls aim to maintain their reading and writing skills and continue their educational path in a situation where they have been barred from access to official schools. They also hope that one day they will be able to return to formal education without fear.<\/p>\n<p>The denial of secondary education to girls is one of the broadest restrictions imposed on women and girls in Afghanistan. Since the Taliban&#8217;s return, this restriction has remained a frequent target of criticism from human rights groups and education advocates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls in Afghanistan are attending secret schools after being denied secondary education under Taliban rule, CBS News reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}