The United Nations children’s agency recently noted that one thousand days have passed since Afghan officials banned girls from attending secondary schools.
アフガニスタンが女子の中学校を禁止してから1000日たちました。
Catherine Russell is the executive director of UNICEF. On June 13, Russell said, “No country can move forward when half its population is left behind.”
In a statement, Russell urged Taliban officials to permit all children to restart learning immediately. She also called on the international community to support Afghan girls, who she said need it more than ever. The agency estimates that more than 1 million girls are affected.
The U.N. has warned that the ban on girls’ education remains the Taliban’s biggest barrier to gaining recognition as the lawful rulers of Afghanistan.
recognition
【名】 見聞き、聞き覚え◇以前に見聞きしたことがあると気付くこと、または気付いている状態
The Taliban took over Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces in 2021. The group has said that educating girls goes against its strict interpretation of Islamic law.
アメリカの撤退後、タリバンがアフガニスタンを占領した。
タリバンは、女子の教育はイスラム教の厳格な解釈に反すると言っている。
interpretation
【名】 〔意味や重要性の〕解釈、解明
Although it has promised a more moderate rule, the Taliban has also barred women from higher education, most jobs, and even public spaces like parks. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, they also banned girls’ education.
タリバンは、より穏健なルールを約束しているが、
女性の、高等教育の禁止、働くことの禁止、
公共のスペースへ行くことの禁止などをしている。
barred
【形】 棒［鉄格子・かんぬき］のある 縞のある 禁じられた、除外された
The Taliban has barred girls from attending classes beyond sixth grade. It is the only country in the world with such restrictions on female education.
New school year
The Taliban shut down girls' secondary schools in 2022. The group gave "religious and cultural" concerns as the reasons.
The Taliban officials said they were working to create a correct educational environment for older female students.
The new school year started in March with girls barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade. Female journalists were not permitted to attend the opening ceremony.
An Afghan education official told VOA at the time that the ruling Taliban group might permanently close girls' secondary schools. The official said the Taliban is instead supporting religious schools known as madrasas.
“Schools may never be reopened the way they were under the occupation,” an official at Afghanistan’s Education Ministry told VOA. The official was referring to 2001 to 2021, when the U.S. military was in the country.
under the occupation
ここでは、タリバン占領下
タリバン占領下では、もう、学校は開校しないかもしれない。
occupation【名】 職業、〔生計を立てる〕仕事 余技、趣味 占拠、占有 《軍事》侵略、占領
Last week, UNICEF’s executive director called the systematic exclusion of girls a “violation of their right to education.” She added it also resulted in decreasing opportunities for girls and affected their mental health.
violation
【名】 違反、妨害、違反行為 〔権利などの〕侵害 暴行 〔女性への〕性的暴行
exclusion
【名】 排除、除外、排他、排斥
exclusion –n. the act of barring a person from a group
She said UNICEF has worked with partners to run community-based education classes for 600,000 children, two-thirds of them girls, and train teachers in Afghanistan.
Although Afghan boys have access to education, Human Rights Watch has said the Taliban’s “abusive” educational policies are harming them. In a report published in December, the group said the departure of qualified teachers, changes in curriculum, and an increase in physical, or corporal, punishment have led to greater fear of going to school and falling attendance.
男子学生は学校へは行っているが、資格のある先生もやめている、カリキュラムも変わった。また、肉体的な罰や、怖さで、学校へ行くのをやめている。
abusive
【形】 〔言葉遣い・態度が〕悪い、口汚い、悪口を言う、人を罵倒する 悪用された 虐待の、虐待的
corporal
【1形】 肉体の、胴体の、身体の
Also on Thursday, a spokesperson for the U.N. Human Rights Office said the Taliban has told female public civil servants that their pay would be cut to the lowest level regardless of their experience or qualifications. The group had already banned females from working.
タリバンは、女性公務員の給料も一番低いレベルに下げた。すでに、女性が働くことを禁止している。
Volker Türk is the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. The spokesperson said he urged the group to withdraw laws, orders, and all other measures that discriminated against women and girls, in violation of the country’s human rights obligations.
これらの女性差別の法律や命令などを撤回するように国連は声明をだした。
Nobody from the Taliban was immediately available for comment.
タリバンからの返答はない。
I’m Jill Robbins.
しばらくの間、英単語学習にブログを使いたいと思います。
私は、けっこう、のんきな毎日を過ごしています。
何が、幸せなのかはわからないけれど
教育がないと、チョイスができなくなります。
人はみんな
過去に学んだことや経験したことから
意識的にも、無意識にも
考えたり、選んだりしています。
世界は少しずつ
多様性へと進んでいます。
今のところ、進むことで、
逆に混沌とした世界になっているように感じるけれど。
それぞれが自由な選択できるそんな世界になってほしい。
