Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital on Wednesday enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities. Know more:
KABUL, Afghanistan—Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital on Wednesday enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities, with video obtained by The Associated Press showing women weeping and consoling each other outside one campus in Kabul.
Members of an activist group called the Unity and Solidarity of Afghanistan Women gathered outside the private Edrak University in Kabul on Wednesday morning, chanting slogans in Dari. A letter shared by the spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Ziaullah Hashmi, on Tuesday told private and public universities to implement the ban as soon as possible and to inform the ministry once the ban is in place.
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said late Tuesday that no other country in the world bars women and girls from receiving an education. Afghanistan’s former president, Hamid Karzai, strongly condemned the university ban for women in a Tweet.
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