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"We join millions of Afghan families today in expressing deep, deep disappointment and condemnation with the Taliban's decision not to allow women and girls to return to school above grade six," US State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
For more than nine months, Afghan girls over the age of 11 have been prohibited from going to high school. The Taliban have not reneged on the ban they imposed on taking power last August, despite their initial promise to do so. In the western city of Herat, FRANCE 24's reporters followed one teacher who hopes that her former students will be able to continue their education. They also met a teacher who is defying the ban by giving clandestine lessons. Meanwhile, some fathers are trying to convince the authorities to reopen girls' schools for their daughters.
Lana Nusseibeh, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, deplores the Taliban decision to shut secondary girls schools in Afghanistan, just hours after they reopened, calling it "a profoundly disturbing setback" and "an arbitrary decision" outside the Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York. SOUNDBITE
The Taliban has sparked outrage and concern among rights groups, after it reversed stance and closed secondary schools for girls across Afghanistan. Thousands of young students were sent home, confused and worried about their future. Many Western countries have made girls' education a key condition to resuming financial aid to Afghanistan.
The Taliban ordered girls' secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut just hours after they reopened, sparking heartbreak and confusion over the policy reversal by the hardline Islamist group.
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