US EditionEU condemns reported Taliban move to suspend medical education for women and girls
- The European Union has condemned the Taliban for violating human rights and women's access to education after reports of a suspension on medical courses for women and girls in Afghanistan.
- The Taliban's decision represents an attack on women’s education, as stated by the EU, and could worsen the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
- The lack of female healthcare workers is alarming, and it threatens the healthcare and dignity of women in Afghanistan.
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No woman in Afghanistan can from now on be trained as a doctor, dentist, nurse, or health researcher. Maulaui Hibatullah Ajundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban fundamentalist movement, which has been ruling the country since 2021, passed on Monday a decree that adds to another previous one that already prohibits women from being treated by male medical professionals in some provinces of the country. In practice, this decision obliges women…
Afghanistan has one of the world's highest mortality rates for pregnant and breastfeeding women and a great shortage of female doctors, nurses and midwives. However, women are now not allowed to take these courses.
UN urges Afghan Taliban not to block women's medical training
The UN mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday urged the Taliban government to reconsider a reported plan to ban women from attending medical training institutes, in the latest move to restrict women's education. A health ministry source and managers from private medical institutes, which offer training in subjects such as midwifery and nursing, told AFP on Tuesday the public health ministry had issued a directive from the Taliban supreme leader to …
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