Afghanistan is the only country condemning women of the basic right to education
Afghanistan is the only country condemning women of the basic right to education
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Discriminations have reached a world par stage, where many countries have disregarded the norms of international human rights and stopping the women’s of their basic right to education. Afghanistan has become the only country to debarred women’s from education.

Crimes in Afghanistan against women’s has reached to a higher extend with banning them to receive higher education. As per the latest announcement made by the Taliban's minister for higher education, Nida Mohammad Nadim, declared that universities are off limit to women in Afghanistan.

 “No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education. Education is a universal human right that must be respected,” said by the Director-General Audrey Azoulay.  

They’ve been prohibiting girls from attending secondary school, issued only months after the fundamentalist group, who ruled in the late 1990s up to 2001, regained power in August 2021, sweeping back into the capital, Kabul. 

As per the international law, right to education on the basis of non-discrimination and equality is a recognized right under human rights law. Provisions relating to gender equality in education can be found in both general and specific international treaties, as well as treaties concluded in most regions of the world.

 "The Taliban cannot expect to be a legitimate member of the international community until they respect the rights of all in Afghanistan," said Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a statement.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979, CEDAW) is the only legally binding treaty at the international level focusing exclusively on women’s rights. It interprets and applies the right to education in a way that considers the specific needs and circumstances of women and girls.  The Committee introduces a novel approach to understand the full nature of the right: the ‘tripartite human rights framework’, which consists of rights of access to education, rights within education, and rights through education.

Where the UNESCO convention against the discrimination in education outlaw all form of discrimination in education, together with basis of sex. This permits the establishment or maintenance of gender-segregated educational systems or institutions, provided they offer equivalent access to education, teaching staff with the same standard of qualifications, infrastructure and equipment of the same quality, and the opportunity to study the same or equivalent subjects.

Taliban has banned the women to receive higher education on the grounds of not following the proper dress code instructions given by the Taliban authority. This act of Taliban is a new further violation which deepens the erasure of the women from the Afghan society.  

Taliban has come on the verge where its condemns women’s and marks the superiority of men’s over women by implying such bans in the name of Islamic rule and regulations. They set the notions where women are again pushed backed to the year when Taliban used to have control in Afghanistan in 90’s. Taliban government is not going along with the changing time, the time which calls for equality but they are heading to the older times where the discrimination was on verge in the society.

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