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TALIBAN DEPRIVED 1.4 MILLION GIRLS OF SCHOOLING, SAYS UNESCO
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* August 15, 2024
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The Taliban has deliberately deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling
since it retook the country three years ago, says the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Afghanistan is the only country in the world where females are banned from
secondary education and universities.
The Taliban regained power in August 2021, 20 years after being ousted by a
U.S.-led force in the wake of 9/11, which was organized from Afghanistan by
their ally, Osama bin Laden.
Their interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, is that girls should not be
educated beyond the sixth grade.
UNESCO said 1.4 million girls had been denied access to secondary education, up
by 300,000 compared to its previous survey in April 2023.
“If we add the girls who were already out of school before the bans were
introduced, there are now almost 2.5 million girls in the country deprived of
their right to education, representing 80% of Afghan school-age girls,” UNESCO
added.
The agency said access to primary education for both sexes had also fallen since
the Taliban took power for a second time, with 1.1 million fewer girls and boys
attending school.
It warned the Taliban had “almost wiped out” two decades of steady progress in
education in Afghanistan.
‘Entire Generation Is Now in Jeopardy’
UNESCO said, “The future of an entire generation is now in jeopardy.”
The agency said the reduced number of primary school pupils enrolled in primary
schools in Afghanistan was partly due to the Taliban banning female teachers
from educating boys.
They also said some parents had pulled their children out of school due to
financial difficulties or needing them to work.
The agency said, “UNESCO is alarmed by the harmful consequences of this
increasingly massive drop-out rate, which could lead to a rise in child labor
and early marriage.”
UNESCO still operates in Afghanistan, and in June it posted on its website
details of how two teachers in Takhar province, in the northern part of the
country, had taken its social and emotional learning training course and applied
it in their primary school classes.
UNESCO is better known for its work in striving to protect world heritage, such
as the pair of giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan that were destroyed by the
Taliban in March 2001.
Amnesty International’s regional campaigner for South Asia, Samira Hamidi, said
in a statement, “Three years on, the absolute absence of any concrete measures
in addressing the human rights catastrophe in Afghanistan is a source of shame
for the world.”
On Wednesday, the Taliban celebrated its third anniversary of seizing power,
four months after President Joe Biden announced he was pulling U.S. troops out
of Afghanistan.
The Taliban staged a demonstration of its military strength at Bagram Air Base,
which was ironically built by the Soviet Union and used by Russian and later
U.S. forces during their time in Afghanistan.
In the 1980s, when a Soviet-backed communist regime was in power, women and
girls were routinely educated.
But when the Taliban took over for the first time in 1996, they banned girls
from school and ordered them to stay indoors. The Taliban also banned music and
many other forms of entertainment, which they believed were decadent and not
Islamic.
Taliban Leader Says It Will ‘Apply Sharia Upon Ourselves’
In a speech on Wednesday, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada,
said: “The system is Islamic and Sharia-based, Sharia is being implemented. As
long as we are alive, we will uphold and apply Allah’s faith and Sharia upon
ourselves and others.”
The Taliban say they respect women’s rights, in line with their interpretation
of Islamic law and Afghan culture.
In 2014, teenager Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in
speaking out for girls in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan to be educated.
Malala survived being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman, four years after
they burned down a school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, where she lived.
Now 27 years old, she lives in exile in England.
The Taliban could not be reached for comment regarding the UNESCO data.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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