The latest ban comes as part of a wave of further restrictions on women’s education and rights in Afghanistan.
has banned all female students from universities in Afghanistan, more than a year after it reassumed control of Kabul in August 2021. Under Taliban rule in the 1990s, girls were banned from getting an education. But following their takeover, Zabihullah Mujahid, the group’s spokesman, had made promises that “there will be no discrimination against women”..
Now, following a meeting of the Taliban government, universities were instructed in a letter – confirmed by the regime’s higher education ministry – to suspend female students’ access immediately until further notice, in accordance with a cabinet decision.
Last month, UN experts alleged that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls, by excluding them from public spaces and stopping them from accessing education,
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