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Depriving girls of education in Afghanistan is treason: United Nations





Kabul

On Sunday, Afghanistan completed a year for its schools for girls. Nasser Ahmad Faik, in charge of the United Nations Permanent Mission in Afghanistan, said that denying girls their basic right to education is national treason.

“Afghanistan is the only country in the world that has closed schools for girls,” the UN representative in Afghanistan wrote on his Twitter handle on Monday morning. Khama Press has given this information.

Markus Potzel, the acting head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said earlier that the ongoing boycott for girls in high schools in Afghanistan makes no sense and that one year of it would mark the completion of schools for girls. Keeping it closed is sad and shameful.

According to the khaama press, UNAMA said about not allowing girls to go to school, ‘There is no point in taking girls out of schools in Afghanistan and there is no such system in any country in the world.’

The restrictions were imposed in September last year

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Afghan high schools opened their doors to boys on September 18 last year, while girls were banned from attending schools. Khama Press quoted the statement as saying that most of the fundamental rights of girls and women are violated in Afghanistan. They are also deprived of education.





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