UNESCO Director-General expresses deep concern over the exclusion of girls from school reopening
UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay expressed her deep concern over the announcement made in Afghanistan to gradually reopen secondary schools for boys and their male teachers only, leaving girls and women behind.
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