The European Union Delegation to Afghanistan has recently announced that it supports the education of girls and women in the country.
The delegation wrote today (Saturday, November 29) in a message on its X account, posted on the occasion of “OrangeTheWorld,” that education for all is the key to reducing vulnerability.
The EU Delegation further stressed, with an emphasis on education, the importance of building a future free from all forms of violence.
The EU highlights the importance of girls’ education at a time when the current government, after taking control of Afghanistan, has deprived women and girls of education and schooling. In its latest restriction, it closed the doors of medical institutes to girls and women, even though the health sector across Afghanistan faces a severe shortage of personnel.
This action by the current government has left millions of female students unable to continue their education.
In addition, women have been banned from going to gyms, restaurants, public bathhouses, being examined by male doctors, traveling without a male guardian, and working in national and international NGOs and even UN offices in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the United Nations says that violence against Afghan women and girls has increased by 40 percent over the past two years.
