Global outcry grows over new Taliban decree targeting Afghan women

FILE - A female nurse takes care of a patient at Wazir Akbar Khan hospital in Kabul on Sept. 1, 2021. FILE - Afghan girls hold an illegal protest to demand the right to education in a private home in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 2, 2022. FILE - A nurse, right, registers a patient at a mobile clinic set up at the residence of a local elder in Yarmuhamad village, near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, March 28, 2021.

The United Nations called on Afghanistan’s radical Taliban leaders Wednesday to refrain from implementing a recently reported decree that prohibits women from pursuing medical education in the crisis-ridden country.