“They will always keep Afghan women as hostages to gain what they want from the international community.” (via WMC's the_fbomb)
, an important decision-making body in Afghanistan regarding the peace and security in the country, and noted that in the past two decades, the organizations together “have made lots of efforts to provide equal space for boys and girls in schools.”
In fact, according to Ayuobi, “data showed that the number of female students in higher education increased from 5,000 to 100,000 in just 2021,” due at least in part to a rapidly improving social mindset about women’s education. The Taliban’s ban on women and girls going to school is connected to the Taliban’s efforts to keep women from leaving their homes altogether, Ayuobi explained. “The Taliban are saying that because they cannot control soldiers from harming women and girls, their logic is to ban them from schools, universities, religious
, and general public life,” Ayuobi said. “They have committed gender apartheid. All of the 20 years of hard work have been reversed and also has cost us billions of dollars.”estimates 5% of the country’s GDP will be lost from diminishing women’s employment, and Yaftali said the Taliban suppresses their rights more and more every day., the male member of their family,” Yaftali said.
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