France utterly condemns the Taliban-imposed ban on Afghan women attending institutions offering medical education.
Unacceptable and unjustifiable, this decision comes on top of countless violations of women's and girls' rights of which the Taliban has been guilty since it seized power in Afghanistan more than three years ago.
France will continue to condemn the serious, systematic human-rights violations by the Taliban, which aims to erase half of Afghanistan's population.
No return to normality can be envisaged without a complete, immediate halt to these violations, as was clearly demanded by United Nations Security Council Resolution 2593 in 2021.
The Taliban continues to deprive women of their fundamental rights, discriminate against them and carry out a policy against Afghan women that persecutes them, segregates them, makes them feel invisible and erases them. France urges the Taliban to reverse without delay all restrictions imposed on women and girls.
In the face of relentless attacks and Taliban obscurantism, France reaffirms its active efforts alongside the Afghan people through concrete humanitarian projects carried out by United Nations agencies and programmes and NGOs on the ground in the areas of education, health and in favour of Afghan women and girls. France will remain committed.