Photo: Lynn Johnson/National Geographic Creative1/14Schoolgirls try to fit on a public bus in the morning rush to school.
Lagos, Nigeria
Photo: Moises Saman/Magnum Photos/Trunk Archive2/14Hazara girls on their walk home from school.
Band-e Amir, Bamyan Province, 2008
Photo: Abbas/Magnum Photos/Trunk Archive3/14Female students in Indonesia attend a biology class.
Indonesia, 2004
Photo: Moises Saman/magnum Photos/Trunk Archive4/14A girl on her way to school in rural Gaya district, an area of Bihar Province where Maoist insurgents are active.
Bihar Province, India, 2010
Photo: Raul Touzon/National Geographic Creative5/14A Sudanese girl in school in the town of Malakal.
Malakal, South Sudan
Photo: Lynsey Addario6/14Wearing hijabs under their mortarboards and seated in separate rows from their male peers, the women pictured are graduates of the department of language and literature at Kabul University.
Kabul, Afghanistan, 2010
Photo: Philip Jones Griffiths/Magnum Photos/Trunk Archive7/14This girl lives with her family on their boat moored on the Saigon River. To get to school, she punts herself to the bank standing on a piece of Styrofoam packing material.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2002
Photo: A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images8/14Girls attend class at a school in Mingora, the main town of Swat valley in Pakistan.
Mingora, Pakistan, 2013
Photo: Sergey Maximishin/Panos Pictures9/14Students rehearse at their music school.
Santiago de Cuba, 2013
Photo: Abbas/Magnum Photos10/14Schoolgirls in uniform practice sports.
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2004
Photo: Stuart Franklin/Magnum Photos/Trunk Archive11/14A group of girls prepare to sit for their formal Urdu exam. There is no power in their school, and those of the 174 tenth graders who are not placed near the window will have trouble seeing the questions.
Hyderbad India, 2002
Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos Pictures12/14Children in Cap-Haitian on their morning walk to school.
Haiti, 2007
Photo: Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos/Trunk Archive13/14A young girl walks through her school.
Olinda, Brazil, 2008
Photo: Martin Parr/Magnum Photos/Trunk Archive14/14Girls gather in the courtyard.
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, 2004
