Afghanistan banned girls from attending tutoring centers

In Afghanistan, amidst the ban on women’s higher education, female students also banned from attending tutoring centers. As per reports, a number of instructors and owners of private institutions said they received orders from the caretaker government that girls above 12 years of age are not allowed to attend classes. A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities.  A protester at the rally told the news agency that some of the girls had been arrested by women police officers. Two were released, but several remained in custody.In the latest move to restrict human rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban's minister for higher education ordered all public and private universities to bar women from attending. This  announcement triggered international outrage, with the United States, the United Nations, and several Muslim nations denouncing it. Saudi Arabia in a statement called on the current government to reverse its decision to ban women from attending schools and universities.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia in a statement called on the current government to reverse its decision to ban women from attending schools and universities.#TOLOnews pic.twitter.com/E1Fh2Nxqok

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The Foreign Ministers of the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the EU .representatives in a joint statement condemned "in the strongest terms" the Islamic Emirate’s recent decisions to ban women from attending secondary schools and universities.