UN: Taliban will announce a framework that allows women to attend Afghanistan “soon,” said a senior UN official, after four weeks where Afghan children have allowed secondary education but girls have not.
“Minister of Education de Facto told us that they were working on a framework, which would soon take, which would allow all girls to go to high school, and we expect it to happen soon,” Deputy Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi said at the United Nations in New York on Friday.
For weeks, the Taliban said that they would allow girls to return to school as soon as possible.
The Islamic group, famous for its brutal and oppressive government from 1996 to 2001, has faced international anger after effectively excluding women and girls from schools and works throughout the country, while gradually disarming Afghan freedom.
The Taliban allowed girls to attend elementary school from the start, but have maintained that their girls and teachers they have not returned to high school.
Taliban officials have said that it can only occur after the security of girls and strict gender separation can be ascertained by strict group interpretation of sharia law, adding that more time is needed to place this framework.
Abdi noted that, when he spoke, “Millions of high school girls lose education for the 27th day in a row.” He said the United Nations had urged the Taliban authority now regulating Afghanistan “not waiting” to educate girls.
Abdi said he had visited Afghanistan the previous week and met the Taliban authorities.
“In all my meetings, the education of girls is the first problem I submitted.” He said he had received an “affirmation” of the Taliban commitment to allow all girls to go to school.
As for secondary school, he said that they were allowed “only in five provinces,” but added that the United Nations encouraged the right to be carried out throughout the country.
A 14-year-old girl identified as asthma this week expressed frustration with her situation and determination to pursue education.
“Will I be able to go to school or not? This is my biggest worries.
I want to learn everything, starting from the easiest to the most difficult subject.
I want to be an astronaut, or an engineer or architect …
It’s my dream, “He told Amnesty International.
“Education is not a crime,” he added.
“If the Taliban announces that getting education is a crime, we will commit this crime.
We will not give up.”