The Taliban has decreed that girls in the country can't go to school.
Any school at all, from whatever constitutes kindergarten/primary school all the way up to university level. No education at all. I.e., relegating women to secondary, servile status.
The way they want it, of course.
US threatens Taliban with 'costs' after ban on Afghan women and girls from school
"The Taliban returned to power over Afghanistan issuing public promises to preserve its people's basic freedoms. But just as swiftly as the group grasped control, it reneged on those guarantees -- completely blocking female students' access to education through a series of crackdowns culminating on Wednesday in a ban forbidding them from attending elementary school, setting the country's women back decades.
The decision to prohibit Afghan girls from receiving even a basic level of education outside of the home comes just a day after the Taliban announced that women would no longer be allowed to attend public or private universities."
Faced with international reaction (none of it good, except from the government of the Republic of Gilead, which commended the ruling), the Taliban relented and is now apparently going to allow girls to finish school up through sixth grade. As long as they come to school clad completely in bedsheets (essentially).
Afghanistan: Taliban allows education for girls up to Class 6, but with THIS condition
Just in case no one is paying attention, this is why theocracy is not a good form of government. As if Irn hadn't already demonstrated that.
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