{"id":60181,"date":"2023-11-29T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/29\/taliban-could-be-convinced-to-open-girls-schools-says-afghanistan-ex-education-minister"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T06:00:32","slug":"taliban-could-be-convinced-to-open-girls-schools-says-afghanistan-ex-education-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60181","title":{"rendered":"Taliban could be convinced to open girls\u2019 schools, says Afghanistan ex-education minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global governments should engage with the Taliban because some in the regime support reversing the ban, says Rangina Hamidi<\/p>\n<p>There are many Taliban officials who would support reversing the ban on schooling for girls in Afghanistan, according to the country\u2019s last education minister before the takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Under Taliban rule, Afghanistan has become the only country in the world where girls are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/aug\/08\/halt-taliban-repression-afghan-women-girls-education\">banned from schooling<\/a> beyond the age of 11. The group has also imposed what has been described as a policy of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/press.un.org\/en\/2023\/sc15421.doc.htm\">gender apartheid<\/a>\u201d, banning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/a-year-taliban-rule-afghanistan-women-photo-essay\">women from most work<\/a> and public spaces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/29\/taliban-could-be-convinced-to-open-girls-schools-says-afghanistan-ex-education-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global governments should engage with the Taliban because some in the regime support reversing the ban, says Rangina HamidiThere are many Taliban officials who would support reversing the ban on schooling for girls in Afghanistan, according to the coun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"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":[46,615,59,61,44,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/60181","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60181\/revisions\/60182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}