Girls of Kandahar
The people risking their lives in the fight for women's education
People are risking their lives to fight for women’s education. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have introduced rules that limit the lives of girls and are reminiscent of their regime of the 90s
With the Taliban closing public schools for girls in years 7 to 12, people are risking everything to fight for women’s right to education. Rahilla, a teacher, grew up in the 90s and notes, ‘after 25 years … we still have to jump over the walls to go to a secret classroom to study’. With history repeating, Monesa Muberez questions: ‘Do Afghan men have the same view about women as the Taliban do?’ In the Taliban’s stronghold of Kandahar, Matiullah Wesa, an education activist, has set up 35 secret schools. Being jailed three times has not put Matiullah off pressuring the government. He concludes: ‘it is our human right. It’s our basic right. It’s our Islamic right’.
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