U.S. condemns reported Taliban move to suspend medical education for women and girls
The Taliban allegedly ordered the suspension of medical education for women and girls in Afghanistan, a move that the U.S. government denounced on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement that this directive is an unjustified attack on women's access to health care and education, and that it is the most recent in a series of initiatives that threaten the lives and rights of Afghan women and girls.
The Taliban have gradually reduced women's rights since regaining control in August 2021 with the withdrawal of American-led forces, including prohibiting girls from going to school past the sixth grade. In an attempt to eradicate Afghan women and girls from public life, the Taliban drafted vice regulations in August that forbid women's voices and bare faces in public.
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