UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools 'shameful'

UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools 'shameful'

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations on Sunday called for Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls inside grades 7-12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high educational organization "shameful."

The U.N. said it is increasingly worried that the policy, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by other restrictions on basic freedoms, will present with to a deepening of the country's monetary crisis inside the form of greater insecurity, penury accompanied by every one one other accompanied by isolation.

"This is a tragic, shameful, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by entirely avoidable anniversary," said Markus Potzel, acting head of the U.N. position of employment inside Afghanistan.

A year following the Taliban took ability inside Afghanistan, hard-liners become perceptible to clasp sway inside the Taliban-led government. Teenage girls are still barred from educational organization accompanied by every one one other accompanied by women are required to cover themselves from head to toe inside public, accompanied by only their eyes showing. The devout category has failed to deliver on various promises to authorize girls' return to the classroom. The ban targets grades 7-12, primarily impacting girls number of years 12 to 18.

The Taliban re-opened high schools to boys while instructing girls to convey on accompanied by to exist at home. The U.N. estimates that additional than a million girls have been barred from attending high educational organization over the past year.

"The ongoing exclusion of girls from high educational organization has no indeed indeed credible justification accompanied by every one one other accompanied by has no indeed indeed side by side anywhere inside the world. It is profoundly damaging to a number of years of girls accompanied by every one one other accompanied by to the future of Afghanistan itself," said Potzel, who is excessively the U.N. secretary-general's deputy exceptional representative for Afghanistan.

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To mark the Sunday anniversary, 50 girls sent a letter entitled "A Year of Darkness: A Letter from Afghan girls to heads of Muslim countries accompanied by every one one other accompanied by other world leaders." The girls hail from the earliest city Kabul, eastern Nangarhar province accompanied by every one one other accompanied by northern Parwan province.

"The past year, we have been denied anthropoid rights, such while the fair to attain an education, the privilege to work, the liberty to exist accompanied by dignity, freedom, mobility accompanied by every one one other accompanied by speech, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the fair to determine accompanied by every one one other accompanied by resolve for ourselves," Azadi, an 18-year-old 11th-grade student from Kabul, said inside the letter. The girls named inside the letter gave only their earliest names.

The U.N. said the denial of education violates the most fundamental rights of girls accompanied by every one one other accompanied by women. The world body said it increases the chance of marginalization, violence, exploitation accompanied by every one one other accompanied by abuse opposed to girls accompanied by every one one other accompanied by is small part of a broader range of discriminatory policies accompanied by every one one other accompanied by practices targeting women accompanied by every one one other accompanied by girls since the de facto authorities assumed ability inside the summer of 2021.

The U.N. on one instance additional called upon the Taliban to reverse the slew of measures they have introduced restricting Afghan women accompanied by every one one other accompanied by girls' enjoyment of their basic rights accompanied by every one one other accompanied by freedoms.

Since taking power, the Taliban have struggled to govern accompanied by every one one other accompanied by convey on accompanied by to exist internationally isolated. An monetary downturn has driven millions additional Afghans into penury accompanied by every one one other accompanied by hunger while the sprint of overseas assistance has slowed to a trickle.

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But it is now \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-europe-middle-east-syria-109927ade3b86bf8f4190cee96204bcb\">slowly rebuilding some centre capabilities\u003c/a> inside Iraq accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Syria accompanied by every one one other accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-afghanistan-taliban-pakistan-religion-9bcf86bdc4b7f3e5aa2553f649538b62\">increasingly fighting local governments\u003c/a> inside places including Afghanistan, where an affiliate of the IS group, excessively known by the acronym ISIS, is fighting \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-covid-entertainment-health-ashraf-ghani-458d17a5eba416b2845e127ecbe35ebc\">the ruling Taliban\u003c/a> following the U.S. withdrawal. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"If the United States accompanied by every one one other accompanied by our partners pull spine or withdraw further from areas where ISIS is active, the group's trajectory will increasingly exist contingent on on local governments' will accompanied by every one one other accompanied by ability to become filled the resulting safety voids," says the report, originally published inside classified form inside May 2020, months following then-President Donald Trump's management reached \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bahrain-afghanistan-qatar-united-arab-emirates-dubai-a0b1e2fa69b051fef177c87734301a38\">an agreement\u003c/a> accompanied by the Taliban to pull not here American troops. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:738076027554' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='beefc4e955235e110cc7468b21e95428'>Hub peek embed (IslamicStategroup) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>Biden accompanied by every one one other accompanied by top national safety officials have cited the recent \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ayman-al-zawahri-al-qaida-terrorism-biden-36e5f10256c9bc9972b252849eda91f2\">strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri\u003c/a> while proof that America maintains an "over-the-horizon" counterterrorism capacity inside Afghanistan following the withdrawal. U.S. exceptional forces excessively \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abu-ibrahim-al-hashimi-al-qurayshi-is-syria-raid-fab8258e4ac5be4a90702d429ee693e6\">killed the head of the Islamic State group\u003c/a> inside a February raid inside northwest Syria. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"The fact of those operations are, I think, reflective how solemn this threat environment remains,\" said Christy Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Thursday. But she added that analysts exist convinced by the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland is "less acute than we've seen it\" at some hour dated since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/new-york-government-and-politics-c5e1bcbcf3327938bb3c1a34e4807a5d\">the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Analysts have not lengthy ago seen grow inside IS category branches around the world, mostly inside Africa, said Abizaid, who spoke at the Intelligence accompanied by every one one other accompanied by National Security Summit outer external outside Washington. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"Afghanistan is a really interesting tale down those lines concerning where the ISIS affiliate is accompanied by every one one other accompanied by how we convey on accompanied by to exist worried concerning it," she said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Some outer external outside analysts speak al-Zawahri's evident presence inside downtown Kabul suggests that extremist groups are additional comfortable operating inside Afghanistan — accompanied by every one one other accompanied by that it will exist tougher to labour external outside the Islamic State category while it grows across the country.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Bruce Hoffman, older fellow for counterterrorism at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, called the May 2020 report "very clear-eyed accompanied by every one one other accompanied by forthright."\u003c/p>\u003cp>"It's extremely different operating opposed to ISIS inside the isolated summit redoubts or deep valleys of Afghanistan," he said. "The advantages that enabled us to so brilliantly lay clasp of not here al-Zawahri, I would guess, are away outer external outside of Kabul."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>While the White House last month released declassified points from an intellectual capacity evaluation saying al-Qaida had not reconstituted inside Afghanistan, the points did not address the Islamic State inside Khorasan, the local IS category affiliate. IS-K was inside ask in remittance of for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/europe-france-evacuations-kabul-9e457201e5bbe75a4eb1901fedeee7a1\">killing 13 U.S. troops\u003c/a> outer external outside the Kabul airfield all over the withdrawal accompanied by every one one other accompanied by has continued to mount an insurgency opposed to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/taliban-takeover-afghanistan-what-to-know-1a74c9cd866866f196c478aba21b60b6\">the Taliban now inside jurisdiction of the country\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The National Security Council said inside a statement that the U.S. is employed to deny "ISIS-K access to financing, disrupt accompanied by every one one other accompanied by deter overseas terrorist fighters from reaching Afghanistan accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the region, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by labour external outside ISIS-K's brutal extremism."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The May 2020 report was declassified this August accompanied by every one one other accompanied by published online last week by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The ODNI periodically declassifies accompanied by every one one other accompanied by releases older intellectual capacity assessments. A spokesperson for the ODNI's National Counterterrorism Center declined to answer questions concerning the evaluation or address the intellectual capacity community's contemporaneous view on the Islamic State group. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The report predicts that the Islamic State group's worldwide branches are probable to grow its \"capability to behaviour attacks inside numerous regions of the world, including the West." The U.S. would additional probable face attacks from people inspired by the group's ideology than plots directed or supported by the group, the report said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Pressure by local governments where the IS category is operative accompanied by every one one other accompanied by their international partners "almost certainly will form the scale of ISIS' resurgence inside Iraq accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Syria accompanied by every one one other accompanied by its expansion worldwide," the report said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Experts commonly concur accompanied by the report's predictions, said Colin Clarke, an expert on counterterrorism who is director of research for The Soufan Group, an intellectual capacity accompanied by every one one other accompanied by safety consultancy. But top intellectual capacity analysts would have been associated accompanied by inside drafting accompanied by every one one other accompanied by reviewing the assessment, formally known while a national intellectual capacity estimate, he said. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Clarke noted some recent IS-linked attacks inside Afghanistan, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-russia-ukraine-explosions-kabul-00bf5815018fb152be8784f6f3af2557\">an evident self-destruction bombing\u003c/a> outer external outside the Russian embassy inside Kabul that killed place of set of two diplomats, while well while ongoing fighting inside the centre of militants accompanied by every one one other accompanied by U.S.-backed forces at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-middle-east-syria-arrests-government-and-politics-2c7d48abf5e8bc0591f4d2b8b2e86eb4\">a sprawling bivouac inside Syria\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"There are some things that have happened inside the last few weeks,\" he said, "that build you awe if the circumstances is not additional dire than is actuality presented." \u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>Follow the AP's coverage of the Islamic State category at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/islamic-state-group\">https://apnews.com/hub/islamic-state-group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>","alertLinkDateTime":null,"storyLayout":{},"reporters":[],"headlinePlacement":null,"relatedStoryEmbeds":[],"disableNativo":false}]},{"id":"urn:publicid:ap.org:ed0fbfa16774d0a223cc66ada2a26777","shortId":"urn:publicid:ap.org:ed0fbfa16774d0a223cc66ada2a26777","allowAd":true,"borderColor":null,"cardTitle":null,"cardHeadline":null,"cardType":"Wire Story","collectionTagObjs":null,"embedCardTitleColor":null,"disclaimerText":null,"dividerColor":null,"expandedStoryCount":null,"headlineWidget":false,"hubPeekLinkText":null,"hubPeekTagId":null,"hubPeekTagName":null,"hubPeekCanonicalName":null,"hubPeekIsPr":null,"minimizedStoryCount":null,"tagObjs":[{"id":"Afghanistan","name":"Afghanistan","canonicalName":"afghanistan","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-sports","name":"Sports","canonicalName":"sports","isPr":false},{"id":"Asia","name":"Asia","canonicalName":"asia","isPr":false},{"id":"Australia","name":"Australia","canonicalName":"australia","isPr":false},{"id":"Bangladesh","name":"Bangladesh","canonicalName":"bangladesh","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-Sports-Asia","name":"Sports - 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However, Ahmad forced his way into the squad following picking up 14 wickets inside Afghanistan's Shpageeza Cricket League, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by has experience of playing inside Australia's Big Bash League. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Rasooli made his T20 debut opposed to Bangladesh inside March nevertheless missed the Asia Cup due to a digitthumb injury. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"We are contented to have (Rasooli) available," leader selector Noor Malikzai said inside a statement on Thursday. "He has demonstrated good glimpses inside the Shpageeza Cricket League accompanied by every one one other accompanied by offers an additional batting option to our centre order."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Afghanistan is inside Group 1 accompanied by Australia, England, New Zealand accompanied by every one one other accompanied by place of set of two yet-to-be-determined qualifiers. 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The U.S. accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Swiss governments accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Afghan economics experts speak they'll transfer $3.5 billion inside frozen funds from Afghanistan's centre border to use for the country's people while hunger grips every one one province there. The Taliban management will not exist a small part of the new Afghan Fund, which will convey on accompanied by its description accompanied by the Bank for International Settlements inside Switzerland. 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The trustees are place of set of two Afghan economists, a U.S. management representative accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a Swiss management representative. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Notably, the Taliban management will not have access to the fund, which will exist held at the Bank for International Settlements inside Switzerland. The border inside a report release said its small portion is "limited to providing banking services to accompanied by every one one other accompanied by executing the instructions of the Board of Trustees of the Fund lacking involvement inside the Fund's governance or decision making."\u003c/p>\u003cp>In the interim, Afghanistan's centre bank, which inside February had $7 billion inside frozen funds, "must demonstrate that it has the expertise, capacity, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by self-government to responsibly perform the duties of a centre bank," the U.S. Treasury accompanied by every one one other accompanied by State departments said inside a fasten statement. "Robust safeguards have been place inside place to place an extremity to the funds from actuality used for illicit activity.\"\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:553182830256' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='5393b05f911d4eeba6d75ae74ea3fd13'>Hub peek embed (Afghanistan) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>International funding to Afghanistan was suspended accompanied by every one one other accompanied by billions of dollars of the country's assets abroad, mostly inside the United States, were frozen following \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/taliban-takeover-afghanistan-what-to-know-1a74c9cd866866f196c478aba21b60b6\">the Taliban took jurisdiction of the country\u003c/a> inside August 2021 following \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-islamic-state-group-e10e038baea732dae879c11234507f81\">the U.S. military's withdrawal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The World Bank says income accompanied by every one one other accompanied by monetary output inside Afghanistan have dropped inside the centre of 20% accompanied by every one one other accompanied by 30%, imports have declined by violently 40%, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by 70% of Afghan households report they are unable to completely meet basic food or non-food needs. \u003c/p>\u003cp>In February, President Joe Biden issued an administrative order that called for banks to provide $3.5 billion of the frozen money to a trust fund for distribution into with every one other accompanied by not here of humanitarian groups for Afghan reassurance accompanied by every one one other accompanied by basic needs.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The other $3.5 billion will carry on accompanied by to exist inside the U.S. to monetary affairs payments from lawsuits by U.S. victims of terrorism that are still employed their way into with every one other accompanied by not here of the courts, prompted by claims brought by family members of people killed on Sept 11, 2001. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"The Afghan Fund will assist mitigate the monetary challenges facing Afghanistan while protecting accompanied by every one one other accompanied by preserving $3.5 billion inside reserves from Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), Afghanistan's centre bank, for the good of the people of Afghanistan," Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>He said the Taliban's "repression accompanied by every one one other accompanied by monetary mismanagement" had exacerbated longstanding monetary challenges for Afghanistan that had made the return of the funds untenable. \u003c/p>\u003cp>In a Tuesday letter to Afghanistan's centre bank, Adeyemo said until conditions for the centre border are met, their jurisdiction of assets "would place them at intolerable chance accompanied by every one one other accompanied by jeopardize them while a leap of support for the Afghan people."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Shah Mehrabi, a Montgomery College economics professor, is one of the trustees of the new fund. He told The Associated Press that the money should exist used primarily to convey on accompanied by cost stability inside the country, by preference than for humanitarian purposes. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"I exist convinced by the motive of board, while a member, is to address the liquidity accompanied by every one one other accompanied by cost stability issues inside the country expeditiously, earlier to a harsh winter," he said. "There are ways we tin provide reassurance so that Afghans are intelligent to have food accompanied by every one one other accompanied by vitality accompanied by every one one other accompanied by to perform their basic done every one one day duties." \u003c/p>\u003cp>Human Rights Watch said inside August that Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis cannot exist effectively addressed unless the U.S. accompanied by every one one other accompanied by other governments ease restrictions on the country's banking sector to permit monetary activity accompanied by every one one other accompanied by humanitarian aid.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Nearly fifty per cent of the Afghan inhabitants — 18.9 million people — is estimated to exist acutely food insecure inside the centre of June accompanied by every one one other accompanied by November 2022, the World Food Programme said. 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