Several sources confirm the Taliban pronouncement, part of ongoing efforts to curtail education for girls and women. Women studying these subjects say they were barred from classes this week.
Nurses caring for patients at Wazir Akbar Khan hospital in Kabul on September 1, 2021. Since assuming power that year, the Taliban has curtailed educational opportunities for women. This week they reportedly banned women from studying nursing and midwivery.
Although the ban has yet to be formally announced, two government officials who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity, because of the matter's sensitivity, confirmed it.The ban reflects an ongoing Taliban effort to curtail education for girls beyond grade six. One 22-year-old nursing student said she learned about the ban when her friends began calling to express their condolences."Are you telling the truth?" she said she asked them. The young woman went to her institute in case her friends were misinformed. One of her teachers"told us to go home. The institute is closed until further notice," the teacher told her.
"Many of us have faced increasing harassment from the authorities," she said."In just the last two weeks, our staffs were detained and they asked us for money to be allowed to stay open," she told NPR, adding that the constant harassment forced her organization's schools to transition to online lessons."We don't have any in-person classes at all because they forced us into shutting down the last of our training program.
Indeed, Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman to give birth. According to a December 2023 statement from Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. Secretary-General, a woman dies every two hours across Afghanistan in birth-related complications.The ban on women studying basic nursing skills"makes absolutely no sense. Even according to the Taliban's own logic," says Jackson of the Center on Armed Groups.
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