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After 23 years of war, internal armed conflicts and the fundamentalist Taliban regime (1996–2001), the thirst for education in Afghanistan is big, particularly among the female population who has been completely denied the right to education in past years. According to optimistic estimates, in the beginning of the 21st century only 16 per cent of Afghan women were literate (UNESCO, 2000: 63); however, it was probably not even half that figure:
At the best of times the overall literacy rate was less than 20 per cent among males and less than 5 per cent among females. (These figures are considered by some as very optimistic.). RAWA, Overview on the situation of Afghan women (1997–2011)
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Hanemann, U. (2015). Home-Based Schools: Increasing the Access of Education to Afghan Girls and Women. In: Rothermel, P. (eds) International Perspectives on Home Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137446855_17
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