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It comes days after Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to support a right to education for women and girls living under the Taliban.

A woman’s ability to attend medical school was considered a loophole in the Taliban’s laws that banned women from higher education.

Australia is taking legal action against the Taliban in the World Court for violating women’s rights protected under a UN treaty.

The Taliban has banned on the sound of women’s voices in public, prohibiting them from speaking. The United Nations has condemned this.