Afghanistan, Education, Global development, Higher education, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, World news
‘Being a girl is a heavy crime’: Afghan women in despair over university ban
Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnation
It was late evening in Kabul, and Sabra*, a fourth-year medical student, saw a WhatsApp message appear on her phone. In a university chat group for 38 classmates, a friend had shared a news report suggesting the Taliban had banned women from higher education. “Girls, what’s going on here?” the friend wrote. “Is it true?”
On Tuesday, Afghanistan’s ministry of higher education issued a letter to all government and private universities, ordering an indefinite ban on university education for women. The country’s hardline Islamist rulers had already banned most female Afghan teenagers from secondary school education.
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