Video: Taliban ban female students from universities

STORY: Protests in front of a university in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. This video was released on Wednesday. Groups of men and women stood in front of the university building, holding up white sheets and shouting slogans. The protests are directed against the decision of the radical Islamic Taliban to ban women students from the country’s universities with immediate effect. In a government statement, all private and public universities were instructed to enforce the education ban for women until further notice. A professor at a university in Kabul, who didn’t want to be recognized, said university staff had to turn female students away at the entrance. These female students were taken completely by surprise by the ban: “I was so disappointed when I heard the news this morning. I was so worried because I thought that we will have no future and no right to study because education is the inalienable Right of every human being, and no one can take that right from us.” “We urge the international community to support us and negotiate with the Taliban so that we can continue our studies. Studying is my only passion and I love studying.” The US and Britain condemned the move during a UN Security Council session on Afghanistan. “The Taliban cannot expect to become a legitimate member of the international community until they respect the rights of all Afghans, particularly human rights and the fundamental freedoms of women and girls,” said US Representative Robert Wood. After the radical Islamic Taliban took power in August last year, universities were already forced to introduce new rules. Entrances and classrooms were separated according to gender. Women could only be taught by other women or old men. Most teenage girls in Afghanistan are already excluded from further secondary education. Girls and women are also largely excluded from other areas of public life. For example, women are not allowed to travel or drive to work unaccompanied by a male family member.

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