The Taliban allowed boys in classes six to 12 to attend school and male teachers to resume teaching across Afghanistan from Saturday but haven’t said when girls could return, fuelling further concerns that the hardline Sunni Pashtun group might impose restrictions on girls and ladies . The new Taliban ministry of education made the announcement during a statement on Friday, saying state and personal schools at the first and secondary level also as official madrasa religious schools would be open from Saturday. “All teachers and male students should attend school,” the Taliban said within the statement.
Most educational institutions across Afghanistan have remained closed quite a month after the Taliban seized the capital Kabul. Girls up to Class 6 have attended classes at a number of the faculties that have managed to remain open and ladies have gone to college classes. But high schools for women are closed Afghanistan.
Taliban officials have promised that girls are going to be ready to attend school goodbye as they are doing so in segregated classrooms and that they have said they’re going to not replicate the fundamentalist policies of the previous Taliban government, which banned girls’ education. However, women still aren’t allowed to continue their add a number of the provinces, with exceptions for those that have worked in health departments, hospitals and education.
The UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has welcomed the reopening of faculties in Afghanistan from Saturday but said that girls must not be kept faraway from the school rooms . “We are deeply worried that a lot of girls might not be allowed back at this point . Even before the foremost recent humanitarian crisis, 4.2 million children weren’t enrolled in class . Around 60 per cent of them are girls,” Unicef chief Henrietta Fore said during a statement on Friday.
“Girls cannot, and must not, be left behind. it’s critical that each one girls, including older girls, are ready to resume their education with none further delays. For that, we’d like female teachers to resume teaching,” Fore added.
Unicef has said that significant progress has been made in education within the country over the past 20 years . “The number of faculties tripled. the amount of youngsters in class increased from 1 million to 9.5 million,” it’s said. The United Nations agency urged development partners to support education “for all children” in Afghanistan. “Unicef will still advocate with all actors in order that all girls and boys have an equal chance to find out and develop the talents they have to thrive and build a peaceful and productive Afghanistan,” Fore stated.
The Taliban recaptured Afghanistan in August after US troops withdrew and therefore the Afghan government collapsed, prompting concern that they’re going to reimpose a harsh interpretation of shariah that prohibits girls from attending school.
