News Center- On March 31, many women and female students staged a protest in front of the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school in Kabul demanding the girls’ secondary schools be reopened in Afghanistan. Many female students of the school and other students attended the protest and held banners reading “Open the schools”.

They drew attention to the silence of the international community

The protesters calling on the parents to support girls' right to education demanded the schools be reopened. Somaiya Haqjo, a student of the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school drew attention to the silence of the international community against the Taliban's ban on girls going to school and said, “I expected the international community and the United Nations to advocate for girls’ right to education.”

“Open the schools for girls”

A women’s rights group released a statement condemning the Taliban for ordering girls’ schools to close. “The Taliban have deprived Afghan girls of their most basic rights and violated the basic rights of half of the Afghan people. We strongly urge the Taliban-led government to reopen the girls’ schools,” the statement reads.

Why did they stage the protest in front of the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school?

ISIS organized an attack on the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school last year in May. 100 people were killed and 200 more were injured in the attack. Most of the killed people were schoolgirls.