The Afghanistan Medical Council has assured that women will be able to take the specialization exam at a time when the Taliban have vetoed women’s work and women’s access to secondary and higher education.
This is from an official statement, picked up by Tolo News, in which it announces that male medical students will have to appear next February 18 to take the exam (initially scheduled for November), which is essential to choose a medical specialty.
In the note, the Council clarifies that women will be able to take the exam, although for the moment it has not given a date of convocation.
As regards other professions, it should be recalled that the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Roza Otunbayeva, has asked the Taliban authorities to extend the licenses of the country’s female lawyers as an exceptional measure to the fundamentalist veto.
Otunbayeva acted in response to the Taliban’s extension of the practice licenses of 1,300 lawyers, all male, who will be able to continue working in a country under Islamic law.
The head of UNAMA has conveyed her concerns directly to Taliban Justice Minister Abdul Hakim Sharae, the UN said in a statement, but the results of the meeting have not been disclosed.
Otunbayeba described as «vital» the need to extend the licenses of Afghan women lawyers given their «experience in providing legal support to women and children in the country», the same argument provided by NGOs that insist the Taliban allow the work of women aid workers given their access to the female population.
The fundamentalist movement has not only prohibited women aid workers from working as a matter of course, but has also prevented girls from accessing secondary and higher education.
The Taliban have promised to publish a concrete code of application of a regulation still considered erratic in order to determine its exact scope.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
