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Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and ...
On March 21, 2022, the Taliban promised to reopen all schools in Afghanistan, seemingly ending the temporary ban it had placed on girls attending secondary school since its return to power seven ...
In August, the Taliban published vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public in an effort to completely erase Afghan women and girls from public life. Medical education, including ...
She said UNICEF works with partners to run community-based education classes for 600,000 children, two-thirds of them girls, and train teachers. Although Afghan boys have access to education, Human Rights Watch has said the Taliban's “abusive” educational policies are harming them. In a report published in December, the group said deep harm ...
The university ban comes weeks after Afghan girls took their high school graduation exams, even though they have been banned from classrooms since the Taliban took over the country last year. “I ...
[9] However, they restricted access to education for teenage girls by allowing only boys to resume schooling. Additionally, they prohibited women in Afghanistan from working in most sectors beyond health and education. [10] [11] [12] Some provinces still allow secondary education for girls, despite the nation-wide ban.
The Taliban previously arrested another outspoken critic of the ban on women's education Ismail Mashal in February, but he was released from custody on March 5. [ 60 ] Despite the ban, six provinces, Balkh , Kunduz , Jowzjan , Sar-I-Pul , Faryab , and the Day Kundi provinces still allow girl's schools from grade 6 and up.
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province.