On Wednesday, more than a million Afghan girls got ready to return to school but were turned away following a last-minute reversal of the Taliban's decision to reopen schools for them.
The fundamentalist movement, which seized control of the country in a blitzkrieg in August 2021, gave no reason for the turnaround, which sparked national outcry.
International organizations and world governments have also called on the Taliban to reconsider their decision immediately.
"Our message is clear: All girls in Afghanistan should be able to go to school," 10 members of the UN Security Council said in a joint statement late Friday.
Since the Taliban takeover, the hardliners have curtailed the rights of Afghans.
Girls and women have been deprived of many of their rights and protests against the changes have been suppressed.
