The violation of the extremist movement of women and girls in Afghanistan led the United States to announce on Tuesday that it has placed further sanctions on the Taliban.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of International Girl’s Day, “Today it announced the installation of limits on awarding visas.
for the current, former Taliban militants and other accountable individuals who are complicit in the violence against women and children in Afghanistan.
He added that Afghanistan is “a year ago, the only country in the world in which girls are prohibited from a systematic way from going to school after the sixth grade, without waving any date on the horizon” for the Taliban’s return from this decision.
The Taliban regained control of Kabul on August 15, 2021, after which the hard-line Islamic movement banned the two supplemental and secondary phases of the country from returning to their respective schools. On the other side, the movement enabled college students to finish their coursework within stringent guidelines.
In Afghanistan, the education of girls is a highly contentious subject.
Blinken stated in his declaration, “We continue to highlight a collective message and invite other governments to act similarly with us.
He added that “the United States strongly supports the Afghan people, and remains committed to doing everything in its power to protect and enhance the human rights and basic freedoms of all Afghans, including women and girls.
It took the Taliban a few weeks to establish stringent regulations on women and girls in the nation to keep them out of public life as part of its rigid interpretation of Islamic law, according to the authority.
At least 53 people were killed at the end of September in a suicide attack on a school packed with kids in a nearby suburb, including at least 46 girls and young women.
US sanctions have been added against the Taliban for obstructing women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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