Aid to Afghanistan can be made conditional to Taliban allowing education for all girls and women, says panel of high-level speakers at United Nations UNGA
This picture taken on September 20, 2021 shows a young female student jumping over a skipping rope at the Gawhar Shad Begum school in Herat.
"I think the international community here, first and foremost, has to draw on the expertise, on the leadership of Afghan women... to stop the reversal, to remain in school," she said in the UN panel that focused on ways to support girls' education in Afghanistan. She said the United Nations and the international community can help ensure Afghanistan's economy does not collapse and that educators and health care workers continue to be paid.
Afghanistan, which relies heavily on foreign aid, faces near total poverty resulting from political instability, frozen foreign reserves, and a collapsed public finance system. During the previous era of Taliban rule in the 1990s, before they were ousted by a US-led invasion, girls and women were denied an education and were excluded from public life.
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