Over 90 pc Afghans back girls' right to education: UN Survey

Kabul [Afghanistan], August 31 (ANI): A caller United Nations survey has recovered that implicit 90 per cent of Afghans enactment girls' entree to education, adjacent arsenic the Taliban continues to enforce a prohibition connected pistillate secondary and higher education, Khaama Press reported.

According to the Khaama Press, citing the study released connected Friday, the findings are based connected responses from 2,000 radical crossed Afghanistan and bespeak a beardown nationalist statement successful favour of girls' acquisition contempt authoritative restrictions.

UN Women's pb connected humanitarian efforts, Sofia Calltorp, said Afghan families stay steadfast successful their tendency for their daughters to proceed learning, contempt the ongoing crackdown.

She besides emphasised the captious request for accrued enactment for women's intelligence wellness and healthcare services, arsenic ongoing exclusion and trauma proceed to instrumentality a dense toll, Khaama Press reported.

As per Khaama Press, the UN besides raised alarm implicit the Taliban's prohibition connected women moving with assistance organisations, stating it has severely disrupted humanitarian operations. According to the survey, 97 per cent of Afghan women described the employment restrictions arsenic devastating.

Four years aft the Taliban's instrumentality to power, Afghan women and girls proceed to look sweeping limitations connected their rights. Most recently, reports person emerged of orders to region women's photos from nationalist ID cards, further deepening concerns implicit erasure and repression, arsenic reported by Khaama Press.

Earlier, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had warned that Afghanistan faces a terrible wellness situation arsenic 22 cardinal radical request aid, backing gaps person unopen clinics, and wide exile returns endanger to overwhelm fragile systems.

The WHO has warned that Afghanistan faces a worsening humanitarian crisis, with much than 22 cardinal of the country's 46 cardinal radical successful urgent request of assistance.

In its latest study released Thursday, WHO said implicit 16 cardinal Afghans person been targeted for life-saving assistance this year, yet lone 24 per cent of the required backing has been secured. The shortfall has near millions without entree to captious support. (ANI)