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title: "Broken Promises, Displaced Afghan Girls"
description: "Briefing paper from February 2017 about Education in Emergencies in Afghanistan."
url: "https://www.nrc.no/resources/briefing-notes/broken-promises-displaced-afghan-girls"
language: "en"
published: "2017-03-02T12:36:42Z"
modified: "2017-03-02T12:42:09Z"
---

Report

# Broken Promises, Displaced Afghan Girls

Published 02. Mar 2017

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[Afghanistan](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=29) [Children](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=140) [Education](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=145) [Youth](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=169)

Briefing paper from February 2017 about Education in Emergencies in Afghanistan.

Last year, more than 600,000 people were newly displaced in Afghanistan; half of whom were boys and girls and a large number of them are out-of-school. Education must now be acknowledged as a humanitarian priority in Afghanistan that warrants a coordinated and well-resourced response.

- [Download briefing note](https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/briefing-notes/broken-promises-displaced-afghan-girls-170227-nrc-afg.pdf)