RASC: The female students who have been deprived of going to school, have once again protested against the discriminatory policies of the Taliban group against women and girls and want the immediate reopening of their schools.
These female students also accuse the international community of neglecting the requests of millions of Afghanistani girls to reopen schools.
674 days has passed since the closure of girls’ schools above the sixth grade. The girls who have been deprived of going to school during this period say that the number of these days may be only one for others, but for them, every day of not going to school is as a year has passed. Every day they have become more desperate for their future.
Iqlima, one of the female students, said: “I will be in the seventh grade next year and I am worried about my lessons that I will fall behind.”
Madina, another female student who left school, said: “The Taliban say that schools will open today or tomorrow. How long do we have to wait?”
However, the world’s observation of the Taliban’s continued restrictions on women is one of the most important concerns of Afghanistani women’s rights activists.
Maryam Arvin; The women’s rights activist believes: “Until the international community takes effective steps and puts more pressure on the Taliban, this group will not reduce the restrictions on Afghanistani women, and with each passing day, they have increased their restrictions on Afghanistani women.”
Meanwhile, Sirajuddin Haqqani, one of the senior officials of the Taliban group, did not consider girls’ education as a serious issue. This difference should not be widened, it needs some work. Our opinion is not to make these talks so serious that we make Afghanistan a witness to the crisis again.”
Before ordering the closure of beauty parlors and preventing the Taliban group from participating in entrance exams, the United Nations had said that the Taliban group had issued 50 orders based on which women’s freedoms were either denied or limited.
The US State Department and the United Nations have said that the Taliban will not be recognized until they respect human rights, especially women’s rights.
