09/18/2021 1:29 PM
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Updated 09/18/2021 1:29 PM
The outrage was repeated in Afghanistan after the Taliban, with their traditional misogyny, decided that
only boys would return to high school classrooms after a month closed.
The girls must stay in the houses.
If they fail to finish high school they will not go to university, which would be the purpose of this fanatic militia.
They attribute this decision to Islam, but experts in that religion deny such a provision.
"There is no such thing, this is theirs against women's rights
,
"
said one analyst.
"Last night I did not sleep, all night I was thinking about my daughters. They had been at home for more than a month and anxiously awaited the reopening of the schools. But the (Taliban) government only allowed the boys to resume classes," Sakina told Efe , 38 years old.
Their daughters Hasina, 16, and Adila, 14
, have been crying heartbroken
since they learned that they will not be able to return to school yet.
For now, only primary school girls have been able to return to their classrooms.
"We are a poor family, we spend a lot of money on the education of our daughters, but now we do not know if they will be able to return to their classes or not," he lamented.
Afghan women exercise in a sports club for women only EFE
Secondary schools had not reopened since August 15, when the previous Afghan government collapsed with the Taliban taking Kabul.
For many, this decision is reminiscent of the one taken during the previous Taliban regime between 1996 and 2001, when they
kept girls locked up in their homes.
Taliban spokesman Bilal Karimi came out to try to alleviate the upset and insisted on Saturday that the opening of the girls' schools will take place "in time", and said there is no need to worry.
But nobody trusts that ad.
TWENTY YEARS OF CHANGES
Human rights activists hope that the Taliban will not repeat their past practices, with
an Afghan society that has changed a lot over the past two decades, in
addition to their need to earn global recognition.
"We do not know what the Taliban are doing and what their plan is, but we ask them to remain committed to their promises to respect women's rights," Marghalara Khara, director of Social Affairs of the dissolved Ministry of Women, told EFE. now replaced by the
Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue
and the Prevention of Vice, already in force in the first five-year Taliban.
Khara remarked that the situation now "is completely different from that of the 1990s," and also thanks to "national and international pressure" he does not believe that the Taliban are going to "ignore half the Afghan population and isolate it."
"
There is nothing against Islam or anti-Islamic in girls' schools
and other bodies related to women, I don't know what the Taliban want to do, they should clearly tell the nation what they want to do with the women of this country," he said.
Since the fall of the Taliban regime with the US invasion in 2001, the situation for women has changed dramatically in much of Afghanistan, with a percentage of girls in schools
dropping from zero to 39%
in recent years, among those around 10 million students enrolled, according to official data.
A Taliban patrol in Kabul.
Xinhua
Former Deputy Minister of Education Ghulam Jailani Humayoon also insisted that female education is a
"fundamental right (and) not only an international principle, but also part of the teachings of Islam."
"The ban on girls' education will not only affect the educational system, but will also seriously affect the spirit and morale of girls,"
Humayoon
told
Efe
, which is why, he added, it is "the responsibility" of the Taliban government to avoid for this to happen.
In the Doha agreement, signed in February 2020 between the United States and the Taliban, which set a date for the departure of US troops from Afghanistan, the radical group pledged to respect human rights in the country, especially those of women. women, but their actions say otherwise.
There are no women in the interim government announced by the Taliban on September 7, many women have not yet been able to return to their jobs, the female protests were violently dispersed, and yesterday they replaced the Ministry for Women's Affairs, with that of the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which will be in charge of the rigid implementation of Islamic norms.
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