The Taliban have ordered female students at private universities in Afghanistan to wear full-length abayas and cover their faces with niqabs.
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It has also been ordered that female and male students must be kept separate and not go to the same class, or if this is not possible, kept separate by a curtain in the classroom.
A long decree Sunday from the Taliban’s education authority also states that female students should only be taught by other women teachers. But if that is not possible, “older men of good character” can step in.
However, the new decree does not say anything about the use of the burqa.
The order applies to private educational institutions, which have been set up in large numbers since the fall of the previous Taliban regime in 2001.
The last time the Taliban ruled the country, girls and women were mostly denied going to school and university.
