The Taliban government has banned access to university for women in Afghanistan

Those set up by Taliban authorities in Afghanistan banned entry “until further notice” on Tuesday. Women in public and private universities across the country

The Afghan Ministry of Higher Education, led by the Taliban, announced on Tuesday that female students will not be allowed access to such institutions in the country.

A letter, confirmed by a ministry spokesman, ordered Afghanistan’s public and private universities to immediately suspend the admission of female students, according to a cabinet decision.

The minister for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice, Mohamad Khalid Hanafi, explained this Tuesday that the reopening of educational centers that have been closed since the Taliban came to power “depends largely on the creation of a decent cultural and religious environment. ”

The Taliban’s recent curtailment of women’s education should be of concern to the international community, which has not officially recognized the de facto government.

Foreign governments, including the United States, have said a change in women’s education policies is needed before considering formal recognition by the Taliban-led government, which is also subject to heavy sanctions.

In March, the Taliban were criticized by many foreign governments and some Afghans for relying on signs that everyone would open secondary schools for girls.

The authorities have been preventing this since August. Middle school through sixth grade students return to classes, something they have given the student permission to do. In February, the process of reopening universities ended after the imposition of gender segregation in classrooms.

The Taliban counterattacked by closing educational centers and expelling students as a result of a series of measures. discriminatory against women that distances them from their work and dominates aspects of their daily lives.

(With information from Reuters and Europa Press)