Saudi Arabia and Qatar urged the Taliban on Wednesday to reverse its ban on ladies receiving a college schooling in Afghanistan.
In a Wednesday assertion, the Saudi International Ministry stated it expresses “shock” and “remorse” on the Taliban-led authorities’s resolution.
“The Ministry of International Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s astonishment and remorse on the resolution of the Afghan caretaker authorities to disclaim Afghan ladies the proper to school schooling, and calls on it to reverse this resolution,” the ministry stated.
It added that the Taliban’s transfer was “astonishing in all Islamic nations and is opposite to giving Afghan ladies their full reputable rights, foremost of which is the proper to schooling, which contributes to supporting safety, stability, growth and prosperity in Afghanistan.”
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Qatar’s Ministry of International Affairs issued the same assertion, saying the nation “expresses concern and disappointment with the Afghan caretaker authorities’s resolution.”
“The Ministry of International Affairs stresses that these unfavorable practices could have a big affect on human rights, growth and the economic system,” the ministry stated in a press release.
“As a Muslim nation during which ladies get pleasure from all their rights, particularly schooling, the State of Qatar calls on the Afghan caretaker authorities to evaluation its resolution in step with the teachings of the Islamic faith regarding ladies’s rights,” it added.
In a 2021 Ladies Peace and Safety Index launched by the Georgetown Institute for Ladies, Peace and Safety, Afghanistan ranked final amongst 170 nations when it comes to ladies’s inclusion, justice, and safety. Saudi Arabia and Qatar ranked 102 and 97, respectively.
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Regardless of initially promising a extra reasonable rule respecting rights for ladies and minorities, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned feminine college students from attending universities efficient instantly.
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It was merely the Taliban’s newest edict cracking down on ladies’s rights and freedoms. The terrorist group has broadly applied their strict interpretation of Islamic regulation, or Sharia.
They’ve banned ladies from center college and highschool, restricted ladies from most employment and ordered them to put on head-to-toe clothes in public. Ladies are additionally banned from parks and gymnasiums.
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The Taliban have been ousted in 2001 by a U.S.-led coalition for harboring al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and returned to energy after America’s chaotic departure final yr.
The Related Press contributed to this report.