Statement condemning the ban on women from universities in Afghanistan 

Madrid, December 22, 2022. Crue Spanish Universities strongly condemns the ban on university education for women and on secondary education for girls over 12 years of age, ordered in Afghanistan. 

The university community wishes to reassert its support for the people of Afghanistan, and its women and girls in particular, and calls for the revocation by Kabul’s rulers of a decision that condemns their nation to a dark future.