KABUL, Dec 11 — For Saja, studying nursing at a healthcare institute in Kabul was her last lifeline to make something of herself after women were banned from universities in...
Afghan female students studying health studies walk along a street in Kabul on December 3, 2024. Despair gripped Afghan women healthcare students after the Taliban government ordered, according to multiple sources, the exclusion of Afghan women from medical training, sparking panic across institutions.
The authorities have made no official comment or confirmation, nor have they responded to the numerous condemnations and calls to reverse a decision that further blocks women’s access to education. Institutes across the country — which many women had turned to after the university ban — were given a few days to organise final exams.Some institutions told AFP they would operate as normal until they received written orders, while others closed immediately or scrambled to hold exams before shuttering.
“No one is happy,” he told AFP from his office steps away from women’s classrooms, where the last lesson on the board advised how to manage stress and depression in patients. This has to be taken “equally seriously as a written document”, said NAC country director Terje Magnusson Watterdal, adding that “there are a lot of people high up within the current government that are quite opposed to this decision”.International organisations like the United Nations, which has said Afghan women are victims of a “gender apartheid”, have already warned of devastating consequences of the plan, in a country where maternal and infant mortality are among the world’s highest.
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