Nargis Jaffari studies at home in Kabul days after Taliban’s U-turn on allowing Afghan girls back to school. Photo: AFP
Nargis Jaffari studies at home in Kabul days after Taliban’s U-turn on allowing Afghan girls back to school. Photo: AFP
Afghanistan

Women ministers around the world urge Taliban to rethink heartbreaking U-turn on girls’ education

  • Female foreign ministers from 16 countries are calling for the reversal of the recent decision to again deny Afghan girls access to secondary schools
  • They said access to education is a human right, and ‘no country can afford to not take advantage of the potential and talent of its entire people’

Nargis Jaffari studies at home in Kabul days after Taliban’s U-turn on allowing Afghan girls back to school. Photo: AFP
Nargis Jaffari studies at home in Kabul days after Taliban’s U-turn on allowing Afghan girls back to school. Photo: AFP
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