The United Nations is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 through 12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”
FILE - A classroom of a Hazara Shiite school sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 31, 2022. The United Nations on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022, called for Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7-12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”
ISLAMABAD — The United Nations on Sunday called for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7-12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.” “This is a tragic, shameful, and entirely avoidable anniversary,” said Markus Potzel, acting head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan.
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