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.
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.
People just aren’t critical enough of the institutions they live and work within. It’s a sickness of the human condition that people struggle to question and to even entertain the idea of going against authority and their social groups. It’s called loyalty and it should be eradicated.