The de facto authorities in Afghanistan recently made decisions to bar women and girls from attending universities and from working for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has vehemently condemned as cruel violations of women and girls’ rights, a press release writes.
They emphasized that these measures will cause one of the worst gender discrepancies in the world and put the entire nation in danger for centuries.
The Committee stated that they strongly disapprove of the de facto Afghan government’s decision to bar women and girls from attending universities. They added that they regretted the most recent rule prohibiting women from working for NGOs.
It is estimated that more than one million girls have been prevented from attending high school over the past year when the de facto authorities took back power and closed secondary schools for girls across the nation. With the most recent university prohibition, the nation is now banning half of its population from regular learning, resulting in one of the largest gender discrepancies in the whole globe.
The ban on women working for NGOs will not only leave them and their families without an income, but it will also entirely wipe out their only social life and prevent them from being able to contribute to the development of their nation.
Millions of women and girls may be excluded from the humanitarian effort, which is crucial for the nation where nearly six million people are at risk of famine, as a result of their exclusion.
For centuries to come, Afghanistan will suffer as a result of these catastrophic policies.
These judgments need to be overturned right away, and girls and women of all ages should be let to go back to school and work in safety in every area of Afghanistan. The country should “guarantee that women and girls have the same degree of access to secondary and higher education as men and boys,” as they said in their 2020 proposals.
