Seeking international support for the cause of Afghan girls’ education, several women, who were former members of Parliament (MPs) in the previous Afghanistan governments, met with Mélanie Joly, Canada’s foreign minister, at the Canadian Parliament.
Joly said that her government will jointly work with Germany to solve problems regarding education in Afghanistan. She added that they will ask the Taliban to reopen secondary schools for girls.
Simin Barakzai, a former Afghan MP, said that the meeting took place in the presence of several Canadian and Afghan MPs and called on Joly to discuss girl’s right to education with Taliban authorities.
Recently, the UN rights chief had slammed the Taliban’s “institutionalized systematic oppression” of women and girls in Afghanistan, warning they face a “critical” situation. “Since the Taliban returned to power last August, Afghans have been “experiencing some of the darkest moments of a generation”, Michelle Bachelet told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
