US Special Envoy Condemns Taliban’s ‘Cynical’ Policy towards Girls’ Education

Rina Amiri, the US Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights in Afghanistan, slammed the Taliban’s policy of prohibiting girls from attending school past the sixth grade, calling it “cynical politics” that lacks any foundation in either culture or religion.

The Taliban’s “cruel” stance toward girls’ education, according to the special envoy Amiri, dashes the hopes and potential of young Afghan girls.

“There is no justification for continuing this cruel & destructive policy. Not culture, not religion nor logistics,” Rina Amiri wrote on her Twitter handle on Sunday, September 11.

Earlier this week, after the schools, closed their doors to the girls and they were sent home in tears, young girls protested on the streets of Paktia province in southeast Afghanistan in front of the provincial directorate of education.

Without the Taliban’s formal instructions, the province’s schools reopened for girls after a decision by tribal chiefs and local education authorities but were closed again after only two weeks.

This comes as the Taliban Acting Minister of Education, Noorullah Munir, addressing an audience in Uruzgan province in central Afghanistan stated that given the current situation, parents in Afghanistan do not want to and are reluctant to send their daughters to school.

Afghan girls past the sixth grade have been denied the right to an education and the opportunity to attend school since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last year, despite calls for the Taliban group to reopen girls’ schools and sanctions from the international community. However, the issue has not yet been resolved.

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