Thursday briefing: What next for the thousands of women in Afghanistan banned from studying?
In today’s newsletter: The Taliban have barred half the population from higher education – but it’s just one of many injustices women now face in the country
Good morning. On Tuesday, the Taliban announced that women would be banned from university education indefinitely. Yesterday, female students who showed up for class wept and consoled each other after they were turned away by security forces, forced to reckon with the loss of their imagined futures – and the further tightening of the same extreme misogynist ideology that the Taliban once promised would not return.
Cruel and far-reaching though the university ban is, it is not an isolated decision: last night, reports emerged (£) that girls have been banned from attending primary school, too.
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