Quotes of the day!

 Quotes of the day!

Taliban orders girl high schools remain closed, leaving students in tears
Taliban orders girl high schools remain closed, leaving students in tears

Kabul, March 23,2022

In a surprise decision, the hardliner leadership of Afghanistan’s new rulers has decided against opening educational institutions to girls beyond Grade six, a Taliban official said  on the first day of Afghanistan’s new school year.

They have ordered that women can not travel alone by air they have to buy tickets for a male relative.

Women and men can't walk  together in parks they have to follow odd -even rule.Women without Burka can not have medical treatment and vaccination.

Quotes By and About Women in Afghanistan

"They made me invisible, shrouded, and non-being A shadow, no existence, made silent and unseeing
Denied of freedom, confined to my cage
Tell me how to handle my anger and my rage?

-- Zieba Shorish-Shamley, from  "Look into my World"  published on the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Taliban in Their Own Words
"It's like having a flower, or a rose. You water it and keep it at home for yourself, to look at it and smell it. It [a woman] is not supposed to be taken out of the house to be smelled."


-- Syed Ghaisuddin, Taliban Minister of Education, when asked why women needed to be confined at home


"If a woman wants to work away from her home and with men, then that is not allowed by our religion and our culture. If we force them to do this, they may want to commit suicide."

 
-- Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, Taliban Minister of Justice


And in Their People's Words
"Because of the Taliban, Afghanistan has become a jail for women. We haven't got any human rights. We haven't the right to go outside, to go to work, to look after our children."

 
-- Faranos Nazir, 34-year-old woman in Kabul


"Approximately 80% of women and men agreed that women should be able to move about freely and that the teachings of Islam do not restrict women's human rights."

 
-- Physicians for Human Rights, "Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Population-Based Assessment"


"'Indignity is our destination"

 Seema, 30, who used to work at a health center and now roams the streets in Kabul begging to support her children."

"When we are together, everyone here is talking about how the Taliban has destroyed our lives.  They won't let us go to school because they want us to be illiterate like them."


-- Nasima, 35-year-old Kabul resident


"Gender discrimination in health care,a civil right,is not only unjust but also inhumane.Religion has nothing to do with human rights of being's breathing in fresh air and enjoying sunshine. Restriction on movement which is natural phenomenon in men and woman alike is against the law of nature!"


-Tejinder Kamboj

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