The G7 foreign ministers recalled Thursday that banning women from attending universities in Afghanistan «may constitute a crime against humanity» under the Rome Statute, to which Kabul is a party.
«The recent measures by the Taliban, along with previous cumulative measures restricting the exercise of human rights as well as the fundamental freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan, are extremely worrying and appear to be a systematic policy,» German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, in her capacity as chair of the group, said in a statement.
She said that the Taliban’s policies, «designed to erase women from public life», will have «consequences» for Afghanistan, as it will change the way in which the respective countries interact with the Afghan authorities.
«We urge the Taliban to abandon the ban on university education for women and to revoke without delay the existing decision to ban girls’ access to secondary school,» he said, adding that they «support all Afghans in their demand to exercise their Human Rights.»
The Ministry of Higher Education, headed by Mullah Neda Mohamed Nadim, issued a brief statement on Tuesday afternoon urging to suspend the admission of women to higher educational institutions without giving any explanation. This veto had already occurred earlier in the country’s secondary education.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
