Afghanistan: Reopening Girls’ Schools Needs Watching

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Afghan girls exit classrooms at Tajrobawai Girls High School in Herat, one of the few provinces where the Taliban permitted girls' secondary schools to reopen, November 25, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris (New York) – The Taliban’s pledge to allow all girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan to reopen on March 23, 2022, needs careful monitoring, Human Rights Watch said today. Aziz Ahmad Rayan, an Afghan education ministry spokesman, told the media on March 17 that, “All schools are going to open to all boys and girls.” Since taking power on August 15, 2021,…

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