The UN secretary-general is “deeply alarmed” by the Taliban’s decision to ban the admission of women to Afghan universities, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
António Guterres urged the Taliban regime to “guarantee equal access to education at all levels.”
“The Secretary General reiterates that the denial of education not only violates the equal rights of women and girls, but will have a devastating impact on the future of the country,” said Stéphane Dujarric, in a statement.
On Tuesday, the Taliban regime prohibited, “until further notice”, the admission of women to public and private universities throughout the country, the local Ministry of Higher Education announced, quoted by the Afghan news agency Jaama Press and the television channel official afghan. Scam.
The Afghan Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Mohamad Khalid Hanafi, has also explained that the reopening of educational centers, closed since the Taliban came to power, “depends to a large extent on the creation of an environment dignified cultural and religious”. “.
The Taliban have been criticized for closing educational centers and excluding female students from education, in a broader framework of discriminatory measures against women that keep them out of work.
Since August, the authorities have prevented higher education students from returning to classes, allowing only male students.
In February the process of reopening the universities came to an end, after the imposition of gender segregation in the classrooms.
Source: TSF
