Teenage Afghan girls say they feel "mentally dead" as the Taliban's ban on their education prevents them from returning to school once again
Teenage Afghan girls say they feel "mentally dead" as the Taliban's ban on their education prevents them from returning to school once again
The new term has begun, but secondary school remains closed to girls for another academic year.
More than 900 days have now passed since girls over 12 were first banned from education. According to Unicef, the ban has now impacted some 1.4m Afghan girls.
The future for many of Afghanistan's girls is "bleak", warns Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International's regional campaigner - pointing to the fact young girls are continuing to be married off when they reach puberty, and are further endangered by the Taliban's rollback of laws designed to protect women in abusive marriages.
900 days = nearly 2 and 1/2 years.
1.4m Afghan girls may not be able to perform that calculation.
I was watching the news when USA left Afghanistan and the media was interviewing random people on the streets. There was one Taliban soldier who said the Taliban would still allow girls in education and jobs.
He was obviously wrong. For a brief moment it was a little hope that the population had accepted girls to be schooled, but at the same time it's also sad that they had no idea of what they were fighting for.
We should occupy that place and fix things
Ban, ban T-Taliban. (that's for the Shakespeare fans out there). What more proof do we need that men have not evolved beyond primitive beasts than that there is such an organization alive and well in our midst.
But then again, I live in Utah where we still haven't entered the 20th century (let alone the 21st, I've given up hope on that). Here women aren't allowed to make their own choices and women who do are considered heathens. So we're not so unlike the middle east here.
I'll never know the sheer indescribable horror of being a woman in a man-centric ignorant-based universe such as ours, but I'm sure there aren't words capable of describing such agony. I can only hope we nuke ourselves out of existence, for mankind truly has been nothing but a sick and wretched exercise in perversion from day one.
Don't worry, that's just the multipolar world kicking in. It's for your own best interest.
This isn't going to stop in Afghanistan.
After WWII the Hungarians were pretty much stuck in the eastern block as human shields against a NATO attack against the USSR. So they were not provided with much rebuilding as the West did for other countries. They picked up pencil and paper and are now known as a country that produces mathematical and scientific geniuses. e.g. Paul Erdős Erdős published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed
My Point, for ding-dongs: Afghans , Palestinians or any poor country should encourage math skills because the raw infrastructure is pencil and paper + a mind. Most minds can do math if they try.
Wow, so impressive.
Sucks that mathematics can’t save you from electing a populist idiot.
so you offer nothing, that's your answer?