"In Afghanistan, if women are sick now, they can no longer visit the male doctors. Like that the women will die for the lack of medical supervision."

“Women can no longer be the sick ones; the patients in Afghanistan. Let alone doctors.”

'Bahisht'
Former Female Medical Student,
Afghanistan.

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/exclusive-afghan-women-fear-for-life-as-taliban-ban-male-doctors-from-treating-them-551218

Here's another Maths question for Rishi Sunak.

Since the U.K. and U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban took over, how many Afghan women have been allowed to seek refuge in the U.K. so they can receive an education?

The answer, once again, is a lot like Rishi Sunak himself.

A big fat Zero.

#FemaleEducation
#Afghanistan
#RefugeesWelcome

Here's another Marhs question for Rishi Sunak.

Since the U.K. and U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban took over, how many Afghan women have been allowed to seek refuge in the U.K. so they can receive an education?

The answer, once again, is a lot like Rishi Sunak himself.

A big fat Zero.

#FemaleEducation
#Afghanistan
#RefugeesWelcome

The bird market in Kabul,
Shah Marai.

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

"Our sisters are talented and deserve better, but also such bans on education will have a very negative, irreversible impact on our society. This is why we Afghan men need to speak up now."

“Even though there is no justice or democracy under the Taliban, the women have been protesting since the Taliban arrival, protecting our values all by themselves. I think it is our duty to stand with them.”

Anonymous Male Student,
Afghanistan.

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jan/04/afghan-men-quit-university-jobs-after-ban-on-women

"During my protest, a young man wanted to make a video of me to support me. They hit him hard."

"There are very few men in Afghanistan who stand with us now. In Iran, men stand with their sisters and support women's rights. If we also stand together for the right to education, we will be 100% successful."

'Adela'
Solo Female Protestor,
Kabul University,
Afghanistan.

#Iqra
#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

On Sunday 25 December, 'Adela' stood in front of the entrance to Kabul University holding up a board with a particularly powerful word written on it in Arabic-

Iqra - Read

Muslims believe this was the first word revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by God.

"God has given us the right to education. We need to be afraid of God, not the Taliban who want to take away our rights."

#Iqra
#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

"If I cannot fly, I will run. If I cannot run, I will take slow steps. If I cannot do that either, I will crawl. But I will not stop my struggle, my resistance."

'Adella'
Solo Protestor,
Kabul University,
Afghanistan.

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64129401

"We hate illiteracy and misery. We want to be literate and our generation to be literate."
"The Taliban came and fired at us, and finally we went up to our roofs and chanted."

Anonymous Afghan Protestor

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

"We raised our voices at night with many slogans and were attacked by the Taliban. Our location was identified, and the Taliban searched for us."

"As a leader, I will stand by my fighting sisters. We want a free country, and we want a country where women and men have equal rights."

Ahmad Ehsan Sangar,
President of the Afghan Social Organization

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

"I don't need these diplomas anymore because my country is no place for education. If my sister and my mother cannot study, then I don't accept this education."

Live on Afghan national television, Ismail Mashal, a university professor from Kabul, ripped up his academic degrees.

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

https://www.rferl.org/amp/afghanistan-taliban-ban-women-university-protests-men/32199112.html

“There is no man at this educational centre. If the implementation of this order continues, we will be obliged to close the doors of this centre."

Azizullah Amir,
Founder,
Moraa Educational Centre for Females,
Afghanistan.

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

"Muslims and non-Muslims are against believing or accepting that banning women’s education is approved in Islam."

"Indeed, Islam firmly denounces such banning since it contradicts the legal rights Islam equally guarantees for women and men."

Ahmed Al-Tayeb,
Grand Imam,
Al Azhar University,
Egypt.

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

https://www.easterneye.biz/35-private-afghan-universities-could-collapse-following-womens-education-ban/

"After a lifetime of education and service in society, we women have been brutally eliminated."

"The Taliban make decisions about women without considering the economy of the families and the economy of the people based on their complex and intellectual beliefs that have no religious or sharia basis.”

Manizha Ramaki,
(Ex) Professor of Education,
Afghanistan.

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/29/what-taliban-bar-on-women-ngo-work-means

“Education is a fundamental human right. A door closed to women’s education is a door closed to the future of Afghanistan." 

Ramiz Alakbarov,
UN Representative to Afghanistan

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation
#HumanRights

"I have nothing to say. Not only me but all my friends have no words to express our feelings. Everyone is thinking about the unknown future ahead of them. They buried our dreams.”

Medina,
18 year old female student,
Afghanistan

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation
#HumanRights

"My female students are distraught and I don’t know how to console them. One of them moved to Kabul from a remote province, overcoming so many hardships, because she got into a prestigious university here. All her hopes and dreams were crushed today.”

Lecturer,
Afghanistan,
(real name not given)

#Afghanistan
#FemaleEducation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/taliban-ban-afghan-women-university-education