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Eugene

(62,775 posts) Tue Dec 3, 2024, 12:27 PM Dec 3

Afghan women 'banned from midwife courses' in latest blow to rights [View all]

Source: BBC

Afghan women 'banned from midwife courses' in latest blow to rights

3 December 2024

Flora Drury and Turpekai Gharanai
BBC News

Women training as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have told the BBC they were ordered not to return to classes in the morning - effectively closing off their last route to further education in the country.

Five separate institutions across Afghanistan have also confirmed to the BBC that the Taliban had instructed them to close until further notice, with videos shared online showing students crying at the news.

The BBC has yet to confirm the order officially with the Taliban government's health ministry.

However, the closure appears to be in line with the group's wider policy on female education, which has seen teenage girls unable to access secondary and higher education since August 2021.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3l1035nlo

Women leaving the education colleges on Tuesday (handout)

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Afghan women 'banned from midwife courses' in latest blow to rights [View all] Eugene Dec 3 OP

It's The Screwfly Solution Easterncedar Dec 3 #1

If all the women of child-bearing age just left Afghanistan that would solve the problem in a couple of generations. VMA131Marine Dec 3 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author CrispyQ Dec 3 #9

Marine's comment was a legitimate satirical one. Irish_Dem Dec 3 #10

I have been known to be dense some times, hence my appreciation for this: CrispyQ Dec 3 #12

You don't have to delete. Irish_Dem Dec 3 #13

Just assume everything I write is satire ... VMA131Marine Dec 3 #16

I don't think Muslims believe in "End Times" theology. Shipwack Dec 3 #6

We're a species currently at war with itself. CrispyQ Dec 3 #7

So men want a society with no women, because their hatred runs deep. Irish_Dem Dec 3 #11

Oh yes, birth control was a game changer. Abortion, too. CrispyQ Dec 3 #14

Exactly. We didn't quite realize it at the time when reliable birth control became available. Irish_Dem Dec 3 #15

Watch the US do this next 4catsmom Dec 3 #2

At home and abroad, the bad guys in the Global War On Women continue their juggernaut. Mister Ed Dec 3 #3

Maternal mortality rate in Afghanistan is 620/100,000 live births. VMA131Marine Dec 3 #4

So who will deliver babies and provide health care to women? Irish_Dem Dec 3 #8