The United Nations: A Senior UN official said Friday Taliban told him that they would announce “immediately” that all Afghan girls would be allowed to attend high school.
Deputy Unicef ​​Executive Director Omar Abdi, who visited Kabul last week, told reporters at the United Nations headquarters that five of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan – Balkh, Jawzjan and Sisangan in Northwest, Kunduz in the Northeast and Urozgan in the southwest – have allowed girls to Attend high school.
He said the Minister of Taliban education told him that they were working on “framework” to allow all girls to continue their school outside the sixth grade, which must be published “between one month and two.” “When I speak to you today, millions of daughters of middle school age are lost in education for the 27th day in a row,” said Abdi.
“We urge them not to wait.
Every day we waited – this is a day that is missing for the girls who come out of school.” During the previous Taliban Afghan government from 1996-2001, they denied women and women rights to education and prohibit it from Life and public life.
Since the takeover of August 15 Afghanistan as A.
and NATO troops are in the final stages of chaotic withdrawals from the country after 20 years, the Taliban has been in increased international pressure to ensure women’s rights for education and work.
Abdi said that in every meeting he pressed the Taliban “to let the girls continue their learning,” call it “critical for the girls themselves and for the country as a whole.” When the Taliban was overthrown from power in 2001 by a US coalition to hide Osama bin Laden, who masterminded the 9/11 attack in the United States, only one million Afghan children at school at all levels, he said.
Over the past 20 years, the figure rose to almost 10 million children at all levels, including 4 million girls, said Abdi, and in the last decade the number of schools tripled from 6,000 to 18,000.
“Education advantages over the past two decades must be strengthened and not rolled back,” he said.
But the deputy head of the UN children’s funds said that despite this progress, 4.2 million Afghan children came out of school including 2.6 million girls.
If all girls are allowed to attend high school, said Abdi, efforts still have to be done to overcome resistance from conservatives to enable them to get secondary education.
“The authorities I met said that when they placed the framework they were working on, it would convince more parents to send their girls to school” because it would overcome concerns in conservative societies about separating girls and women and women of teachers , he said.
“So, it must be seen,” said Abdi.
While in Kabul, Deputy Head of UNICEF said he also visited the children’s hospital “and was surprised to see how gathering with malnourished children, some of them were babies.” Abdi said the health system and social services were on the verge of destruction, medical supply runs very low, measles outbreaks and watery diarrhea increased, and polio and Covid-19 remained serious concern.
“Even before the Taliban takeover, at least 10 million children across the country need humanitarian assistance to survive,” he said, “and at least one million of these children are at risk of dying because of acute malnutrition if they are.
Not immediately treated.” Secretary General The UN Antonio Guterres urged the world to prevent the Afghan economy to collapse and help Afghans, an appeal echoed by the servant who said “the situation is very important and it will only get worse.”