Afghan women were banned from the country’s universities because “they did not respect the dress code,” the Taliban Minister of Higher Education justified this Thursday, a decision that for the G7 could be synonymous with a “crime against humanity.”
“These students who were going to the university (…) did not respect the instructions on the hijab. Hijab is obligatory in Islam,” Neda Mohammad Nadeem said in an interview with state television, referring to the obligation for women in Afghanistan to cover their faces and entire bodies.
Taliban ban women access to university education in Afghanistan
According to the minister, the girls who studied in a province far from their home “also did not travel with a ‘mahram’, an adult male companion.”
“Our Afghan honor does not allow a Muslim girl from the provinces to end up in a faraway province without her father, brother or husband accompanying her,” she declared.
In a laconic letter, the minister on Tuesday ordered all public and private universities in the country to deny access to female students for an indeterminate period.
After the Taliban took power in August 2021, Afghan universities had already been forced to adopt new rules, notably to separate women and men in classes.
Women were only allowed to receive lessons from female teachers or older men.
Organizations condemn the Taliban veto on university education for women in Afghanistan
This new attack on women’s rights shocked many young women in the country, already excluded from secondary schools since March.
The G7 condemned “with all severity” the veto of the Taliban and demanded that that country “immediately stop” the repression that it inflicts on its population.
“Gender persecution is a crime against humanity,” said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, after the virtual meeting with her counterparts from the group of seven great powers, of which Germany will hold the presidency until the end of this year. shift. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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