UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools 'shameful'

By Associated Press

Sep 18, 2022 4:14 pm

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations on Sunday called for Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7-12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school 'shameful.'

The UN said it is increasingly concerned that the policy, together with other restrictions on basic freedoms, will contribute to a deepening of the country's economic crisis in the form of greater insecurity, poverty and isolation.

A classroom of a Hazara Shiite school sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 31, 2022. AP PHOTO

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