MONITORING (SW) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has denounced the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
“The move by the de facto government through its Ministry of Higher #Education is all the more dismaying for the OIC, as the Secretary-General & his Special Envoy for #Afghanistan have both repeatedly & insistently cautioned the de facto authorities against taking such a decision”, it said in a series of tweets.
The latest such cautionary message was relayed by the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for #Afghanistan during his visit to #Kabul in mid-November 2022, it recalled.
“Suspending access by female students to Afghanistan’s universities, H.E. Taha believes, will go a long way in seriously denting the credibility of the government in place, just as it will deny Afghan girls & women their fundamental rights to education, employment, & social justice”, tweeted the OIC.
It further said though OIC is still committed to its engagement policy with the de facto administration in Afghanistan, it cannot but denounce the decision. “.., calling on #Kabul authorities to reverse it for the sake of maintaining consistency between their promises and actual decisions”.
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