Taliban Accused of Stealing the Human Rights of Afghan Women and Girls

The Taliban’s ban on girls above 6th grade attending school in Afghanistan has entered its 990th day. In the initial months after taking over Kabul, the Taliban barred girls above 6th grade from education, and in the second year of their rule, they closed university doors to female students. In response, social media users have launched a campaign to demand justice for the rights of schoolgirls in the country. Users have expressed disgust at the “unjustifiable” ban on girls’ education and condemned it.

Members of this civil protest have called the prevention of 4.3 million girls from attending school an irreparable loss for the girls, their families, and Afghanistan.

They have accused the Taliban of stealing the right to education from the country’s girls. These demands to lift the ban on girls’ education come as the issue of female education is expected to be one of the world’s key demands of the Taliban at the third Doha meeting at the end of this month.