The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Thursday expressed deep concerns about the ongoing educational crisis in Afghanistan, where a ban on girls’ secondary education persists for the third year. “Today Afghanistan is the only country in the world to prohibit access to education for girls and women over the age of 12. We should all be concerned about this situation,” UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay said in a statement. According to new UNESCO data, 1.4 million Afghan girls have been deliberately deprived from secondary and higher education in th…