‘Don’t avert your eyes’: Afghan teachers urge world to defend girls’ education

Educators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban's desire for international legitimacy to be used as leverage

Afghanistan's only boarding school for girls has temporarily relocated to Rwanda, its co-founder has said, just days after a video of her burning class records to avoid Taliban recriminations was widely shared on social media.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, who escaped Kabul with 250 students and staff, urged the world to not avert your eyes" from the millions of girls left behind.