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Taliban blocks girls from returning to secondary school

Dated 23 March 2022: Taliban blocks girls from returning to secondary school. In the causal graph this event weakens Afghanistan Taliban rule (2021+), a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Hibatullah Akhundzada

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    verified

    Role: issued/approved the decree as supreme leader. Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorHibatullah Akhundzada
  2. contributed toFactTaliban blocks girls from returning to secondary school
  3. weakensDriverAfghanistan Taliban rule (2021+)
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Taliban blocks girls from returning to secondary school. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/taliban-keeps-secondary-schools-closed-to-girls-2022

https://factrail.ai/facts/taliban-keeps-secondary-schools-closed-to-girls-2022

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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