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.
I love and value education. This sort of thing really makes me sad.
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.
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.
Mental death is the goal of religion.
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We should occupy that place and fix things
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?