United Nations
The Taliban will announce a frame work that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan “soon,” a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a secondary education but girls have not.
“The de facto minister of education told us that they are working on a framework, which they will announce soon, that will allow all girls to go to secondary school, and we are expecting that to happen very soon,” UNICEF deputy executive director Omar Abdi said at the United Nations in New York on Friday.
For weeks now the Taliban have been saying that they will allow girls to return to school as soon as possible.
The Taliban has faced international fury after effectively excluding women and girls from schools and work across the country, while incrementally stripping away Afghans’ freedoms.
The Taliban permitted girls to attend primary school from the start, but have maintained that neither the girls nor their female teachers could return to secondary school yet.
Abdi noted that, as he spoke, “millions of girls of secondary school age are missing out on education for the 27th consecutive day.—APP
