Afghan Taliban Forced Over 1.4 Million Girls Out Of Schools, Took Away Dreams Through Bans. If the Afghan Taliban continues with its education ban in Afghanistan, more than 4 million girls and women will be hit by 2030. Since they took over in August 2021, more than 1.4 million girls have been forced to leave schools, public, and private universities in the country.
It’s unlikely that the Taliban will lift its ban on education. The ban and restrictions are mainly on girls and women who are also prohibited from going to hair salons, and gyms, traveling without a male companion, and walking in parks.
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Ian Bickford, president of the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), says an entire generation’s talent is at risk of being lost. He highlighted that the learning loss, represented in three years of lost schooling, is significant. Bickford said it would be difficult to surmount.
World Blind To Afghan Taliban
Afghanistan is a land where the United States failed to make any headway in 20 years of its occupation and lost $145 billion to rebuild the war-torn country. The US failed to strengthen Afghanistan’s security forces, economy, government, and civil society. Moreover, the respective American governments failed to eliminate al-Qaeda and decimate the Taliban.
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After coming back to power in 2021, they tightened repression of women and girls. The world powers have watched on helplessly. They have failed to uphold and defend women’s rights. It should be noted that the Taliban have used sharia (Islamic law) to ban girls from education until age 12.
They have prohibited women from public spaces and jobs, and restricting them to a certain dress code, and male guardianship. While other Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan, and Tunisia have enacted laws to protect and uphold women’s rights and promote gender equality, the Afghan Taliban have to catch up.
