Taliban to announce adolescent education plans “soon,” says UNICEF

The taliban will announce “soon” a framework that allows adolescent girls to attend secondary schools in Afghanistansaid a senior official from United Nations, after four weeks of prohibition.

“The de facto education minister told us that they are working on a framework, which they will announce soon, that will allow all girls to go to secondary school, and we hope that will happen very soon,” she said Friday at the United Nations headquarters. in New York the Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Omar Abdi.

The Taliban have been saying for weeks that they will allow the girls to go back to school as soon as possible.

The Islamist group, known for its brutal and oppressive rule between 1996 and 2001, has received international criticism for diverting women and adolescents from companies and schools in the country, while restricting freedoms from Afghans.

The Taliban allowed girls to attend primary school from the beginning, but have maintained that neither adolescent girls nor their teachers can still go back to secondary schools.

Taliban officials have said that adolescent girls will only be able to return to class when the strict segregation by sex that marks the group’s interpretation of sharia can be guaranteed, and that this will take time.

Abdi lamented that “millions of girls of secondary school age are missing their education for the twenty-seventh day in a row.”