UN huddle condemns Taliban's curb on female medical education

An Afghan woman holds her sick daughter as a nurse treats her in the malnutrition ward of the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 24, 2022.

The United Nations warned Thursday that the Taliban's decision to prohibit female students from pursuing medical training is expected to worsen Afghanistan's already dire humanitarian crisis, which the U.N. undersecretary-general says is the second-worst in the world after Sudan's.