04:29Afghanistan: Women turn to carpet weaving after Taliban restriction on female education
Afghan women and girls were seen weaving carpets in Herat on Thursday, after giving up their school lessons due to Taliban ban on female education.
Footage shows a workshop where women of different ages were weaving carpets at looms in afghan traditional way.
"Now I weave carpets, it is because the Taliban do not allow us to education, and our dire financial situation forced us to come here,” said Saida Rahimi, one of the women.
Maryam Ayani, head of Carpet weaving women's union in Herat, explained that ”we have registered over 1,200 women here in the factory, at the beginning we were just 200 women, and during the last year since the Taliban banned the schools, more than 1,000 girls who were studying, have come and joined us, and this process continue.”
The Taliban Higher Education Ministry announced in December 2022 in Kabul that all public and private universities in Afghanistan shall suspend the education of female students immediately and until further notice.
After returning to Afghanistan last year, the Taliban excluded female students from secondary schools, a move that was followed by protests staged by women in the capital, Kabul.
The UN's Special Rapporteur to Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, underlined that it was "a new low further violating the right to equal education and deepens the erasure of women from Afghan society."
The Taliban retook Kabul in August 2021, after the Washington-backed Afghan government of Hamid Karzai collapsed before the last US troops had left the country.
04:29Afghan women and girls were seen weaving carpets in Herat on Thursday, after giving up their school lessons due to Taliban ban on female education.
Footage shows a workshop where women of different ages were weaving carpets at looms in afghan traditional way.
"Now I weave carpets, it is because the Taliban do not allow us to education, and our dire financial situation forced us to come here,” said Saida Rahimi, one of the women.
Maryam Ayani, head of Carpet weaving women's union in Herat, explained that ”we have registered over 1,200 women here in the factory, at the beginning we were just 200 women, and during the last year since the Taliban banned the schools, more than 1,000 girls who were studying, have come and joined us, and this process continue.”
The Taliban Higher Education Ministry announced in December 2022 in Kabul that all public and private universities in Afghanistan shall suspend the education of female students immediately and until further notice.
After returning to Afghanistan last year, the Taliban excluded female students from secondary schools, a move that was followed by protests staged by women in the capital, Kabul.
The UN's Special Rapporteur to Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, underlined that it was "a new low further violating the right to equal education and deepens the erasure of women from Afghan society."
The Taliban retook Kabul in August 2021, after the Washington-backed Afghan government of Hamid Karzai collapsed before the last US troops had left the country.