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Afghanistan: Taliban issue decree – Female students should wear abaya and niqab

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Afghanistan: Taliban issue decree - Female students should wear abaya and niqab

Afghan schoolgirls should wear black cloaks, combined with a face-covering niqab, and watch deliveries in non-mixed classes, according to a decree issued by the new Taliban regime on the eve of the reopening. of the country's private universities.

The women, who are enrolled in these institutions, should also leave the class five minutes before the students and stay in waiting rooms until the last ones leave the building, it is specified in this decree, which is dated Saturday. and published by the Ministry of Higher Education.

Universities, for their part, are obliged to “hire female teachers for female students” or to try to hire “older male teachers” whose morals will have been sifted, the decree also says.

During the Taliban's first rule from 1996 to 2001, a ban on mixed classes prevented almost all women from studying. Women were then required to wear the burqa, a long veil that completely covers the head and body, while a net hides the eyes.

The abaya, which should be worn by female students of private institutions, is a large veil that covers the body. The niqab covers the face and leaves the eyes visible.

As for the non-mixed classes, “it will be complicated in practice, we do not have enough female teachers, nor enough rooms to separate the girls” from the boys, a university professor told AFP, who asked not to be named. .

“But the fact that they allow girls to go to school and go to university is in itself an important and positive station,” he added.

Before the return of the Taliban, Afghan female students could attend classes in mixed classes and also attend seminars led by men.

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Source: politis.com.cy

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