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===Education===
===Education===
There were 45,000 children enrolled in school in 1993, 19% were girls. The latest official statistics show there are now 64,000 children in school, one third are girls. In addition 29% of the teachers in the province are women, compared with 15% in 1993. Effort is being made to ensure that teachers receive salaries on time and increasing the attendance of girls in school. The total enrollment rate for Afghan children between 7 and 13 years of age has increased to 54% (67% for boys and 37% for girls). A number of factors such as distance to schools, poor facilities and lack of separate schooling for boys and girls continue to be challenges to higher enrollment.
There were 45,000 children enrolled in school in 1993, 19% were girls. The latest official statistics show there are now 64,000 children in school, one third are girls. In addition 29% of the teachers in the province are women, compared with 15% in 1993. Effort is being made to ensure that teachers receive salaries on time and increasing the attendance of girls in school. The total enrollment rate for Afghan children between 7 and 13 years of age has increased to 54% (67% for boys and 37% for girls). A number of factors such as distance to schools, poor facilities and lack of separate schooling for boys and girls continue to be challenges to higher enrollment.
[[File:Taliban enter Kabul airport.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Taliban]] enter Kabul airport after U.S. departure, August 31, 2021.<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2021/08/future-us-taliban-relations/184976/</ref>]]
In 2015, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that U.S. soldiers were instructed by their commanders to ignore child sexual abuse being carried out by the Afghan National Security Forces. American soldiers were instructed not to intervene—in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records. But the U.S. soldiers were troubled that instead of weeding out [[pedophile]]s, the U.S. military was arming them against the Taliban and placing them as the police commanders of villages—and doing little when they began abusing children.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/opinion/ignoring-sexual-abuse-in-afghanistan.html|title=Ignoring Sexual Abuse in Afghanistan|author=The Editorial Board|date=2015-09-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Sexual abuse in Afghanistan ==
''See also:'' [[Sexual abuse in Afghanistan]]
According to a report by the Special Inspector General for [[Afghanistan]] Reconstruction, the [[DOD]] had received 5,753 vetting requests of Afghan security forces, some of which related to sexual abuse. The DOD was investigating 75 reports of gross [[human rights]] violations,
including 7 involving child sexual assault.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sigar.mil/pdf/inspections/SIGAR%2017-47-IP.pdf|title=Child Sexual Assault in Afghanistan:Implementation of the Leahy Laws and Reports of Assault by Afghan Security Forces|date=June 2017|website=Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction}}</ref> According to ''The New York Times'', discussing that report, [[American]] [[law]] required military aid to be cut off to the offending unit, but that never happened. [[U.S. Special Operations Forces]] officer, Capt. Dan Quinn, was relieved of his command in Afghanistan after fighting an Afghan militia commander who had been responsible for keeping a boy as a sex slave.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Afghan Pedophiles Get Free Pass From U.S. Military, Report Says
|first=Rod
|last=Nordland
|date=January 23, 2018
|access-date=
|newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://archive.is/wIjcD#selection-1771.33-1771.48}}</ref>
==See also==
==See also==