Activists urge world neighborhood to demand rollback of Taliban’s resolution to ban girls from universities

Human Rights Watch known as it a “shameful” resolution that violates the appropriate to schooling of girls and ladies in Afghanistan.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 24, 2022 23:21 IST

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By Press Trust of India: Human rights activists and teams have appealed to the worldwide neighborhood to urgently intervene and demand the quick rollback of the Taliban authorities’s “misogynist decree” of banning girls from universities in Afghanistan.

Several international locations together with the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom have strongly condemned the Taliban’s newest step in its brutal crackdown on the liberty of Afghan girls and ladies.

In March, the Taliban barred ladies from going to secondary colleges.

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Human Rights Watch known as it a “shameful” resolution that violates the appropriate to schooling of girls and ladies in Afghanistan.

“The Taliban is making it clear every day that they don’t respect the fundamental rights of Afghans, especially women,” the HRW stated in a tweet.

The Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy additionally condemned the “blatantly misogynist decree” of Taliban that for all sensible functions has successfully banned girls’s schooling in Afghanistan.

“Since the Taliban have taken over in 2021, girls have not been able to access schools. Although they promised to open girls’ schools from March 23, the same day they revoked the order. Going by what they have done with schools, the ban appears to be a permanent one,” IMSD stated in a press release.

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“We welcome the fact that the governments of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have condemned the Taliban’s regressive step and appeal to the international community to urgently intervene and demand that this grossly violative decision be taken back immediately” it stated.

Child rights activist and nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi stated denying schooling to women is totally unacceptable.

“Every act of discrimination, suppression and abuse of women and girls is an act of crime against humanity. But how long can darkness hold light in captivity? Light of freedom will prevail,” Satyarthi tweeted.

Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani feminine schooling activist and the 2014 Nobel peace prize laureate, tweeted, “The Taliban may lock all the classrooms and university gates in the country — but they can never lock up women’s minds. They cannot stop girls from seeking knowledge. They cannot kill the quest to learn”.

Yousafzai was herself shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination try in retaliation for her activism.

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India on Thursday joined a number of different main international locations in criticising the Taliban’s resolution, and renewed its name for establishing of an inclusive authorities in Kabul that ensures equal rights of girls in all facets of the Afghan society.

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Dec 24, 2022