Six hundred days have passed since the closure of girls’ schools in Afghanistan, there is no sign of a change in attitude.
During this period, only girls are allowed to study up to the sixth grade. The rest are hundreds of thousands of people living at home.
Sahar Fitrat, researcher of the Afghanistan section of the World Human Rights Watch, is worried about this situation.
In an untimely message on Friday, he told Radio Azadi that the Taliban are implementing and imposing the educational and work policy of their first five-year rule on women and girls.
“After six hundred days have passed since girls’ schools were closed, we all witness and see with our own eyes that the Taliban, like the government of their previous period, took the precious time of Afghan girls and women, when they should grow up, to receive education and education. , with their misogyny, they waste again.
Many girls left out of school say that they are waiting to go to classes
The Taliban government says that it is not against the education of girls, but it is working on its policy. But after nearly 21 months, there is no news about this policy nor the opening of the school doors.
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Sahar and Maryam, two students in Kabul, say that they are tired of this situation and want the educational restrictions on girls to end.
“We no longer have the right to education at all. The right to education is an inalienable right and it is mandatory for every man and woman. No one can take this right away from us.”
“We want the society to support us girls. Talk to the Taliban so that they allow us to study, because my only passion and interest is studying and I really wish to study and continue my studies. to give
Protesting women in Kabul and the provinces of Afghanistan want to change the Taliban’s position regarding the education and work of women, but the Taliban have not responded positively to them so far.
The international community led by the United Nations, human rights organizations, organizations and various countries have always asked the Taliban to allow all girls in Afghanistan to continue their education.
International institutions refer to Afghanistan as the only country in the world where the right to work and education is not given to women.
The United Nations said in March this year that the number of girls who cannot go to school in Afghanistan this year is about three million.
UNICEF, the organization’s children’s protection fund, estimates the number of girls who have been left out of education as a result of the Taliban’s ban on education at more than one million.
