JAKARTA - UAE Ambassador to the United Nations Lana Nusseibeh firmly referred to as "unacceptable" m that girls are still not allowed to attend secondary schools in Afghanistan, more than a year after the Taliban took power.

"This allows gender apartheid," Nusseibeh told the UN Security Council, in an annual meeting focused on women's leadership as a path to peace in the conflict-torn region.

"We found ourselves still struggling with misunderstandings about women and girls as victims or survivors, but not agents of change," he said.

Furthermore, Nusseibeh said, the exclusion of Afghan women from public and social life is another example, how violence against women and girls can occur in various forms.

"Now more than ever, the action is a missing part," he said.

"We have to stop talking about women's empowerment and just give them strength," Nusseibeh said.

Nusseibeh said, when women participate in the economy, "they are more resistant to violence".

On the same occasion, she stressed the importance of women gaining access to technology, to help them achieve economic equality with men.

"Their voices need to be heard and strengthened at school, with their classmates and in all aspects of public life where they are," said Nusseibeh.

"Let's give them digital tools to compete in the same world as men and boys," he concluded.


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