Students and teachers rallied across Afghanistan today to demand the reopening of girls’ secondary schools, after learning that centers opened earlier in the week in the east of the country were closed again.
Shouting “we want education, we need our schools to be open”, dozens of women demonstrated against the ban on female education in Paktya province, where at least five secondary schools were reopened earlier this week at the initiative of teachers. and children’s families. students
“The closure of the newly opened schools is still not clear,” Paktya’s director of culture and information, Khaliqyar Ahmadzai, was quoted as saying by the Spanish news agency EFE.
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban has been a setback for the human rights of women in Afghanistan, with the prohibition of adolescent girls from attending school, gender segregation in public places and the prohibition of traveling without a veil and accompanied by a male member of the family on the go long
The fundamentalists decided to reopen all schools on September 18, except girls’ secondary schools, after all schools were closed due to instability related to their rise to power just over a year ago.
Source: Observadora
