More than 400,000 children in Afghanistan are expected to drop out of school in 2017 due to growing instability in the country and the forced returns of Afghan refugees from Pakistan.
According to the rights group Save the Children, more than 610,000 Afghans were forced to return from Pakistan in 2016 and up to one million more will return this year to the war-torn country.
"Over half of all returnee children are currently out of school, often working on the streets," Save the Children said.
Conflict has also forced more than 1000 schools to shut, authorities have reported in the past months.
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