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Newshour: 18/09/2022 12:06 GMT: Afghanistan: UN calls on the Taliban to reopen high schools for girls

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Afghanistan: UN calls on the Taliban to reopen high schools for girls

18/09/2022 12:06 GMT

18/09/2022 12:06 GMT: Afghanistan: UN calls on the Taliban to reopen high schools for girls

BBC World Service - Newshour, Afghanistan: UN calls on the Taliban to reopen high schools for girls

One year since the ban, UN says a "tragic, shameful and entirely avoidable anniversary"

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The United Nations has urged Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to take urgent measures to reopen high schools for female students, a year after it ordered them to be closed. We hear from a 13 year old in Kabul begging Taliban to reopen school and a UN official on what more can be done to pressure Taliban to reopen schools for girls. The Taliban allowed schools for boys to reopen last year, a month after they seized power in Kabul. But high schools for girls in most parts of the country remain shut.

Also in the programme: World leaders are arriving in London ahead of the Queen’s funeral on Monday, with 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries invited; and a free solo climber described as the “French Spiderman” has scaled a 48-storey skyscraper in Paris, fulfilling a goal he had set for himself once he reached the age of 60.and  

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