The United Nations again called on the Taliban authorities to take “urgent action” to reopen secondary schools for girls in Afghanistan, deeming their closure a year ago “shameful” and “unparalleled in the world.”
“Sunday marks a year since girls were expelled from secondary schools in Afghanistan, a year of lost knowledge and opportunities they will never find, for girls to get their place in school and for the Taliban to let them come back. – UN Secretary-General Antonio. Guterres wrote about this on Twitter.
After seizing power in the summer of 2021, the Taliban banned girls from high schools, and on March 23, an attempt to reopen them lasted only a few hours.
The Taliban announced at the time that the closure was due to “technical problems” and that classes would resume with the release of a curriculum based on Islamic teachings. Their schools opened on 18 September.
“This is a tragic, embarrassing and avoidable memory,” Acting Head of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan Markus Putzel said in a statement yesterday. “The continued exclusion of girls from secondary school has no reasonable justification and is unparalleled in the world.” … girls and the future of Afghanistan.”
