Robert Dixon, the chargé d’affaires of the British Embassy for Afghanistan, has described the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education as a tragedy.
On Sunday, March 23, Dixon posted a message on his X account, highlighting that an additional 400,000 girls in Afghanistan have been deprived of education, bringing the total number of girls barred from schooling to 2.2 million.
Using the hashtag “Education for All,” he wrote: “This is a tragedy for the girls and their country. Education is a right, not a privilege.”
He called on the Taliban to lift the ban.
This marks the fourth academic year in Afghanistan that has begun without the presence of girls in schools.
Since taking control of Afghanistan, the Taliban have imposed extensive restrictions on women, barring girls above the sixth grade from attending school.
