In August, the Taliban revealed “vice and advantage” legal guidelines that banned girls’s voices being heard in public. Weeks later, greater than 130 girls travelled to Tirana in Albania to attend the All Afghan Girls summit to speak concerning the Taliban’s human rights abuses.
The Guardian reporter Annie Kelly spoke to Afghan girls on the convention about how their lives had modified because the Taliban took management.
“I feel it’s fairly tough to actually get your head round simply how a lot the Taliban have modified the lives of half of the inhabitants of Afghanistan since they took management three years in the past,” Annie tells Michael Safi. “Coming from a place the place Afghan girls had been inspired for years to go to highschool, to hunt employment, to seek out jobs within the police and the judiciary.
“Inside weeks of taking energy, the Taliban had prevented all women over the age of 11 from attending secondary college. They closed universities for ladies. Since then, they’ve prevented girls from taking over nearly each type of paid employment. They’ve prevented girls from strolling in public parks. They’ve shut any communal area for ladies, together with magnificence salons. They’ve launched stoning and public executions for ladies for crimes equivalent to adultery.”
{Photograph}: Jutta Benzenberg/The Guardian
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