The Taliban order the veto of women in the country’s universities

Women will not be able to attend universities in Afghanistanaccording to an order published this Tuesday by the Government of the talibanin a new movement of oppression of the fundamentalist regime, which already banned secondary education for girls a year ago.

The decision issued by the Taliban Minister of Higher Education, Shaikh Nida Muhammad Nadim, was made after a cabinet meeting of the Islamist government, according to an official letter published by Afghan media.

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The letter addressed to the authorities of the universities of the public and private sector instructs the centers to prohibit all types of education for womens “with immediate effect and until further notice”.

Today’s decision follows a ban on girls’ secondary education imposed since the Taliban came to power in August last year.

However, the Islamists had promised on several occasions that they would allow the education of the girls once they found a teaching model that complied with Sharia, or Islamic law.

Over the course of almost a year and a half, these restrictions were added to others in a continuous decline in human rights for women, such as segregation by sex in public places, the imposition of the burqa or the obligation to be accompanied by a male relative. on long journeys.

“I am invaded by anger, hopelessness, a feeling of helplessness and guilt. No step forward and such a huge setback for Afghanistan in the last 16 months. We have to find new and creative ways to keep the light on, to keep the fight going.” Afghan activist Shaharzad Akbar posted on Twitter.

Barely two months ago, thousands of young people from all over the country took the university entrance exams, which meant one of the last opportunities for thousands of girls to access higher education.

Among them is Fatima Amiri, a young woman from the persecuted Shiite Hazara minority, who lost one of her eyes in a suicide attack at an educational center in Kabul and who, even with the injuries from that attack, presented the entrance tests and obtained a position. at one of Kabul’s leading institutions.

study computer science “it was my dream”Amiri told EFE when the admission results were known.

Despite promising that they had changed, the Taliban have repeated the behavior of their previous regime between 1996 and 2001, when based on a rigid interpretation of Islam and its strict social code known as Pashtunwali, they prohibited female attendance at schools and imprisoned women at home.

Source: EFE

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