“This time it will be much more difficult for the Taliban to uphold the ban on girls’ education,” said Peace Prize winner and rights activist Malala Yousafzai.
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Outside the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, several girls – and women – are demonstrating.
This happens three days after the Taliban closed down secondary schools for girls “until further notice”, writes Al Jazeera.
– Open the schools! Fairness! Fairness! shouted the protesters on Saturday while carrying textbooks.
When the Taliban were in Norway in January, the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, was able to inform VG that the Taliban leadership promised them that girls’ education at all levels would be resumed this spring.
The Taliban representative told VGTV that there would be positive news about girls’ education in March.
Now the Taliban is accused of breaking its promise, writes Al Jazeera.
–On Wednesday this week, the Ministry of Education had decided that they would resume teaching for girls of all ages. But just hours into the first day of school, the ministry announced a reversal of the policy, writes Al Jazeera.
This means that female students over the sixth grade will not be able to go to school.
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It led to The United States canceled plans to hold talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar.
Peace Prize winner and rights activist Malala Yousafzai reacted strongly on Twitter.
– From (Taliban, journ note) will continue to find excuses to stop girls from learning – because they are afraid of educated girls and strong women.
Yousufzai says to the news agency AFP Saturday, that the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education will not last forever. She believes it was easier for the Taliban to enforce a ban on girls’ education “back in 1996”.
– It is much more difficult this time, it is because women have seen what it means to be educated, what it means to be strengthened. This time, it will be much more difficult for the Taliban to uphold the ban on girls’ education.
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The posters of the women demonstrating in Kabul read, among other things: “Education is our fundamental right, not a political plan,” according to Al Jazeera.
– The Taliban can not oppress the women in Afghanistan, Laila Basim who demonstrated, according to the newspaper.
Watch the interview VG did with the Taliban in Oslo in January:
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