The Taliban ordered the closure of high schools for girls in Afghanistan on Wednesday. just hours after reopening after more than seven months closed, according to a spokesman for the movement.
“Yes, it’s true,” Taliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani told AFP when asked about the authorities’ sudden change in policy.
A team from the ‘AFP’ agency was covering the return of classes at the Zarghona school in the capital, Kabul, when a teacher entered the center and ordered everyone to go home.
Downcast, the students, who were resuming classes for the first time since the Taliban’s rise to power in August, tearfully gathered their things and left.
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The international community made girls’ access to education a key point in negotiations on aid and recognition of the fundamentalist Islamist regime.
Boys of all ages were able to go back to school two months after the Taliban’s victory, but teenage girls have been out of school all this time.
The Taliban regime had argued that it wanted to take time to ensure that the young people between 12 and 19 years of age were well separated from boys and that the centers function according to Islamist principles.
Afghan women bear the brunt of the Taliban’s takeover of power.
sudden order
They were very happy to go back to school
The headmistress of a government secondary school for girls in Kabul he underlined to the ‘EFE’ agency the sudden order not to reopen the center, despite the promises to this effect made by the Islamists last weekend.
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“All the students and teachers were very happy to be back in school, but this morning I received a message from the district education authority that girls between classes 7 and 12 should wait for a second permit due to headscarf problems. “, lament.
The news fell like a jug of cold water on young Afghan women who were preparing to go to school after more than seven months of closure and uncertainty.
Alia, a 16-year-old student in Kabul, told ‘EFE’ before the closure was announced that she was “very excited to go back to school” and meet again with classmates, teachers and friends.
Rejection of the international community
The United Nations envoy for Afghanistan, deborah lyonsHe made his concern clear.
“I am hearing disturbing reports that female students above grade 6 (ages 11-12) have not been invited back to schools by the authorities. If true, what could be the reason?” Lyons said in a statement. the Twitter social network.
Hearing disturbing reports that female students above the sixth grade will not be invited back to school by the authorities, If true, what could possibly be the reason?
— Deborah Lyons (@DeborahLyonsUN) March 23, 2022
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Burqa-clad Afghan women walk through Kabul.
Aamir QURESHI / AFP
The Taliban government announced last week that with schools reopening on Wednesday in Afghanistan after the winter break, all girls would be able to return to classrooms.
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The fundamentalists claimed that they prevented girls from returning to secondary schools to “adapt” their education to Islamic or sharia law, while the access of female students to primary school has always been allowed.
Among the changes adopted was the study in different schools segregated by sex, the need for female students to be instructed by female teachers, also secondary school girls should wear a veil, and if the schools were not enough, boys and girls should attend the center in different schedules.
Today was one of the most anticipated moments in Afghanistan after the Taliban took power, both for the young women who had seen their education interrupted and for the international community, which demanded that the Islamists guarantee all rights to Afghans , especially women.
AFP and EFE
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