REPORT: US condemns Taliban banning women from medical training

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From The Hill: The State Department on Wednesday condemned the Taliban’s newest order preventing women from studying medical courses, citing years of mistreatment.

“This directive, the latest in a series of efforts that jeopardize the rights and lives of Afghan women and girls, is an unjustifiable attack on women’s access to education and healthcare,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote in a statement.

Referencing the Taliban’s “Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” law, instituted in August, the administration claimed the group was seeking to “erase Afghan women and girls from public life.”

“Previously issued restrictions have prevented women from both seeking health services from male providers and traveling without a male guardian. These directives, now coupled with excluding women from obtaining a medical education, further jeopardize the health, well-being, safety, and lives of not just Afghan women and girls, but all Afghans,” the secretary of state wrote.

Last week, journalist Habib Khan posted a video and explained, “Female students at a medical school in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province weep as a man announces that they are no longer allowed to continue their studies. The Taliban’s new order bans women from medical education, closing the last remaining institutions where women can learn.”

In another video, Khan wrote, “Emotional footage from Afghanistan shows Afghan female medical students and their instructor in tears, consoling each other after the Taliban banned them from continuing their studies. The new directive shuts women out of medicine—the last field still open to them.”

The United Nations condemned the move last week, writing, “The ban against women in Afghanistan attending classes at private medical institutions is profoundly discriminatory and puts the lives of women & girls at risk, @UNHumanRights warns. “We urge the de facto authorities to repeal this harmful directive.””

The World Medical Association has called for the ban to be lifted.

In August, the Taliban banned the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public.

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