Afghanistan: after the ban on universities for women, teachers resign
Taliban men stand guard at the entrance to a university in Jalalabad on December 21, 2022 AFP - -
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The hardening continues in Afghanistan where Afghan women no longer have the right to go to university.
They were already banned from secondary education.
Several gatherings of students took place at the gates of several universities across the country to protest against this directive.
Several teachers have also resigned from their posts in protest.
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With our correspondent in the region
,
Sonia Ghezali
Hasiba Azim teaches at a medical school in Ghazni province.
She lost her job and her hopes, she says,
after the announcement of the Taliban regime
.
“
It was terrible for all of us, men and women.
Even our male students left class throwing the flag of the Islamic emirate to the ground.
The boys said they wouldn't come back to class until the girls were reinstated
,” she says.
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In Kabul, Amir Arezo reacted instinctively to seeing his students in tears.
He resigned from his post as a teacher of criminal law and criminology: “
I know that my resignation is in no way a pressure for [the Taliban].
But my morals and my conscience do not allow me to teach justice and the right to boys while girls do not have the right to education
”.
Hacib Ali, a law professor in Kabul, has also resigned and calls on "
all professors in private and government universities
" to do the same.
“
Please!
We must come together to decide on a collective action so that the Islamic emirate accepts our legal and legitimate request to allow girls to study at university
,” he testifies.
For its part, the Taliban regime has still not reacted to the numerous resignations of university teachers.
► To read also: Access to universities prohibits women, "an additional step of hardening"
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