Taliban bans women from college

[NewOrleans]

The world continues to be flaming garbage.

The Taliban have banned women from universities in Afghanistan, sparking international condemnation and despair among young people in the country.
The higher education minister announced the regression on Tuesday, saying it would take immediate effect.

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The ban further restricts women's education - girls have already been excluded from secondary schools since the Taliban returned last year.

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64045497.amp

[mrsukyankee]

[Velar Fricative]

I can't believe we're back to this shit.

[NewOrleans]

Dec 21, 2022 15:20:44 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I can't believe we're back to this shit.

Matt Gaetz et al. have been publicly complaining about educated women for 6 months. 

[shauni27]

Dec 21, 2022 16:45:20 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Dec 21, 2022 15:20:44 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I can't believe we're back to this shit.

Matt Gaetz et al. have been publicly complaining about educated women for 6 months. 

The rage I feel is hard to explain. 

[underwaterrhymes]

Someone posted a video of the women sobbing in a classroom upon learning the news. Their grief was so palpable. Fuck the Taliban and fuck all the men around the world in positions of power who hold the heads of women under water.

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I remember being deployed there during the election in 2009, and feeling tremendous pride that many women were able to vote for the first time in their lives. And of course I felt despair when we left Afghanistan, knowing it wouldn’t be long before the Taliban returned the country to chaos and subjected girls and women to inhumane restrictions. This news is hitting me like a knife to my heart.

[sakoro]

I heard on NPR tonight that the Taliban is trying to shut down girls’ elementary schools 😢

[cattledogkisses]

Dec 22, 2022 17:18:19 GMT -5 @villainv said:

I remember being deployed there during the election in 2009, and feeling tremendous pride that many women were able to vote for the first time in their lives. And of course I felt despair when we left Afghanistan, knowing it wouldn’t be long before the Taliban returned the country to chaos and subjected girls and women to inhumane restrictions. This news is hitting me like a knife to my heart.

Thoughts to you, and to other service members who are struggling.  H spent two years in Afghanistan, and had a hard time in the days after Kabul fell last year.  I know that watching the situation continue to deteriorate just compounds those feelings.

[underwaterrhymes]

@villainv - 💔💔💔

[mrsukyankee]

And it continues: Afghanistan: Taliban bans women from working for NGOs


Women's freedoms have been further curtailed in Afghanistan, after the Taliban barred them from working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

The Islamist rulers said female NGO employees had been breaking Sharia law by failing to wear the hijab.

It comes days after female students were banned from universities - the latest restriction on their education since the Taliban regained power.

Women prevented from going to work told the BBC of their fear and helplessness.

One said she was the main earner in her household, and asked: "If I cannot go to my job, who can support my family?"

Another breadwinner insisted that she had complied with the Taliban's strict female dress code. "This news is shocking," she said. "I am confused what will happen to my life."

A third woman questioned the Taliban's "Islamic morals", saying she would now struggle to pay her bills and feed her children.

[tarajane]

And if the US doesn't pass the Afghan Adjustment Act or do something, we will likely be deporting many of the Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan.

[DesertMoon]

Not surprised one bit. I am surprised they actually waited so long. Those poor women. The world is ugly, from sea to shining sea we are monsters on every continent.