{"id":51363,"date":"2022-12-23T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/23\/taliban-minister-defends-closing-universities-to-women-as-global-backlash-grows"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:52:04","slug":"taliban-minister-defends-closing-universities-to-women-as-global-backlash-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51363","title":{"rendered":"Taliban minister defends closing universities to women as global backlash grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neda Mohammad Nadeem says ban was necessary to prevent mixing of genders as rare protests break out<\/p>\n<p>The minister of higher education in Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities \u2013 a decree that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/22\/first-edition-afghanistan-women-university-ban\">triggered a global backlash<\/a> and protests inside the country. <\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban-run administration announced earlier this week it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/taliban-ban-afghan-women-university-education\">closed universities to women<\/a> partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of the Islamic dress code and interaction between students of different genders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/23\/taliban-minister-defends-closing-universities-to-women-as-global-backlash-grows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neda Mohammad Nadeem says ban was necessary to prevent mixing of genders as rare protests break outThe minister of higher education in Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities \u2013 a decree that triggered a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,646,860,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-gender","category-global-education","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51364,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363\/revisions\/51364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}