The G7 recalls that banning women from going to university in Afghanistan can be a crime against humanity

Dec. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The G7 foreign ministers recalled this Thursday that prohibiting women from attending universities in Afghanistan “may constitute a crime against humanity” according to the Rome Statute, of which Kabul is a part.

“The recent measures of the Taliban, together with previous cumulative measures that restrict the exercise of Human Rights, as well as the fundamental freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan, are extremely worrying and appear to be a systematic policy,” he said in a statement by the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, as chair of the group.

In this sense, he has expressed that the Taliban’s policies, “designed to erase women from public life”, will have “consequences” for Afghanistan, since it will change the way in which the respective countries interact with the Afghan authorities.

“We urge the Taliban to drop the ban on university education for women and to revoke without delay the existing decision to ban girls from secondary school,” he said, adding that “they stand with all Afghans in their demand to exercise their Human Rights”.

The Ministry of Higher Education, led by Mullah Neda Mohamed Nadim, issued a brief statement on Tuesday afternoon urging the suspension of the admission of women to higher educational institutions without giving any explanation. This veto had already occurred previously in the country’s secondary education.