The Taliban ban women from going to university in Afghanistan

MADRID, 20 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The authorities established by the Taliban in Afghanistan have prohibited this Tuesday "until further notice" the admission of women in public and private universities throughout the country, reported the Afghan news agency Jaama Press.

The Ministry of Higher Education has issued a brief statement on Tuesday, also consulted by the Tolo television network, in which it urges the suspension of the admission of women to higher educational institutions.

The Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Mohamad Khalid Hanafi, specified this Tuesday that the reopening of educational centers, closed since the Taliban came to power, "depends to a large extent on the creation of a cultural environment and religious decent".

The Taliban authorities have faced criticism for the closure of educational centers and the exclusion of female students from them, in the midst of a battery of discriminatory measures against women that keep them from their jobs and govern aspects of their daily lives. .

Since August, the authorities have prevented female students in the upper-sixth year from returning to class, something that they have authorized the students to do. In February, the process of reopening universities ended after the imposition of segregation by sex in the classrooms.