“It is incredible that we are debating in 2022 whether and to what extent girls should be allowed to go to school,” said Sahar Ferrar, a researcher at the women’s rights group.
The exclusion of girls from education imposed by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has meant they have already missed 300 days of schooling, which will have a devastating, “shocking” impact on them, their families and the country’s future, the country warned on Wednesday. non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW).
“It is incredible that we are debating in 2022 whether and to what extent girls should be allowed to go to school,” said Sahar Ferrar, a researcher at the women’s rights group.
He expressed gratitude “to the Afghan women with strength who spoke to us. The world must listen to them, must do more to end this shocking violation. Every day, millions of girls in Afghanistan lose opportunities and dreams they will never have again.”
The NGO released a video in which six Afghan women talk about the ban. They share their experiences and shed more light on the fate of millions of girls in Afghanistan who no longer see any future for themselves in their homeland.
After returning to power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, fundamentalist Sunnis banned girls from going to school. They refuse to let them return to the education system despite pressure from the international community and part of Afghan society.
More broadly, women face increasingly severe exclusion from public life under the Taliban regime.
Afghanistan, the country with the highest illiteracy rate in the world, is today the only country in the world that denies girls the right to an education.
Women’s rights advocates stress that the exclusion of girls from schools and women from public life exacerbates problems such as forced child marriage and family violence in traditional Afghan society.
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