Taliban reopen universities in Afghanistan allowing access to women

Some of the public universities Afghanistan They resumed classes this Wednesday, after being closed for almost six months since the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, accepting the presence of women in the classrooms but at different times from those of their male classmates.

Today the higher centers located in the warmer regions of the country, especially in the south, opened, and the universities “in colder areas (will reopen) on February 26,” the spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Ahmad Taqi, told Efe. .

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The reopening occurred “in line with the policy of the Islamic Emirate (as the Taliban government calls itself) sent to universities,” Taqi noted, a document in which the centers were told that access to both genders would be allowed, but segregated and at different times.

“We received an official letter to restart studies for both men and women considering gender segregation”Ismael Sadet, a professor at the Government University of Nangarhar province, in the east of the country, told Efe.

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The letter specified that male students will attend the university before noon, while female students must do so in the afternoon.

Students attend a class at Helmand University in Lashkar Gah on February 2, 2022. (AFP)

Afghan public and private universities were coeducational before the fundamentalists came to power, with men and women studying in the same classrooms.

However, in primary and secondary schools, girls and boys were educated separately.

After the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, all educational centers stopped their activity for a month, and when they reopened they did so with restrictions on female education, which should be limited to primary schools.

In this regard, Taliban officials have promised on different occasions that all girls, including high school students, can return to classrooms in March, when the new school year begins in the country.

Women’s right to education has always been one of the conditions for the recognition of the Taliban government by the international community.

The international community has closely followed the first months of the Taliban government, hoping that they would distance themselves from the hard line they imposed during their first stay in power between 1996 and 2001, when girls were prohibited from attending school. and the women were confined to the home.

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Source: Elcomercio