The Taliban has imposed more restrictions on the education of females in Afghanistan. In their latest edict, private and public universities across the country should ban women and girls from going into their classrooms. The measure, effective immediately, is triggering condemnation from the U.S. and the United Nations over another assault on women’s rights and freedoms.
Young women were seen crying after they were not permitted to go into their university buildings. “All of us were crying and refusing to leave the gates for several hours, and begging Taliban authorities to let us take our exams,” said one student at a private university in Kabul.
Before the announcement of the latest restriction on women, the Taliban had banned girls from middle and high school education, restricted women from seeking work and ordered them to wear head-to-toe burkas in public.
塔利班對阿富汗的女性受教權實施更多限制。他們頒布最新法令,全國公私立大學應禁止婦女和女孩進入教室。這項措施立即生效,美國和聯合國譴責塔利班進一步剝奪婦女的權利和自由。
有人看到年輕女性因為不得進入大學校舍而在校外哭泣。喀布爾一所私立大學的一名學生說:「我們所有人都在哭,我們已在門口幾個小時,不願離開,並乞求塔利班當局讓我們入校參加考試。」
宣布這項對婦女的最新限制之前,塔利班已禁止女孩接受初中和高中教育,也限制婦女找工作,還命令她們在公共場合穿著從頭包到腳的罩袍——布卡。