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The United Nations Sunday renewed its call for Afghanistan’s Taliban to urgently reopen schools to teenage girls, denouncing the anniversary of their exclusion from education as “tragic, shameful, and entirely avoidable.” Since taking control of the conflict-torn country in August of last year, the Islamist group has instructed girls in grades 7 to 12 to…
UN condemns 'shameful' year-long ban on Afghan girls' education
The United Nations urged the Taliban on Sunday to reopen high schools for girls across Afghanistan, condemning the ban that began exactly a year ago as
The United Nations is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 through12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.” The U.N. said Sunday it is increasingly concerned that the policy will deepen the country’s economic crisis in the form of greater insecurity, poverty and isolation. Markus Potzel, the U.N. chief in Afghanistan, says: “This is a tragic, shameful, and entirely avoidable anniversary." A year after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, hard-liners appear to hold sway in the Taliban-led government. Te...
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