RASC News Agency: At the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Indonesia’s foreign minister demanded that the prohibition on Afghanistani girls and women receiving an education be lifted.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that the Indonesian authorities are doing everything they can to ensure the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
She added: “It is a collective responsibility to support the interests of the Afghanistani people.”
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, has previously asked the Taliban to lift restrictions on women.
In their speeches at the United Nations General Assembly, the officials of many Islamic countries asked the Taliban group to lift the ban on girls’ education.
Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia on Friday (September 22) said in his speech at this forum that depriving girls of their right to education is a violation of Islamic teachings. He asked the Taliban group to stop “discriminatory policies” against women and girls.
After regaining control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban group prevented girls above the sixth grade from entering schools and after a while denied girls and women from education in universities. After more than two years, this group has not paid attention to domestic and international requests to reopen schools and universities.
The Taliban group has called countries’ requests to lift restrictions on women interference in their affairs and has not yet said anything about the specific time of reopening schools and universities for girls.
Human rights activists say that the Taliban group has issued at least 65 orders to exclude women from public life, and they demand that the actions of the Taliban group be recognized as “gender apartheid”.
