Document #1240720

TNH – The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News)

Boys' education slides in Helmand

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=74690

ecoi.net summary:
Helmand province: More than 30,000 pupils who attended schools last year have been absent in 2007, the provincial department of education says; about 102,700 students attended school in 2006, fewer than 14 percent of them girls
Country:
Afghanistan
Source:
TNH – The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News)
Original link:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=74690
Document type:
Media Report
Language:
English
Published:
8 October 2007
Document ID:
1240720 (former ID 83396)

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