Exactly five years ago -the day of Ferragosto for us, the feast of the Madonna assumed into heaven, for those who believe -with the return of the Taliban to power, Twenty-two million Afghan women have been deprived of the right to attend school and university. The future of an entire generation of women—some 4 million girls—has been destroyed, and women have been erased from public life. They cannot move freely, read, work, speak, even among themselves, sing, or dance: they are completely alone, strangers in their own country.
The few who are allowed to study do so until they are 12 years old and especially in madrassas. The remains forced marriage, 8-9 year old girls They continue to be sold by their families to men who may be their grandfathers, and a month ago the Taliban revoked all divorces granted in previous years: even child brides must return to their husbands.
«On August 15, when the government fell, it was the worst and most painful day of my life»"Shakiba, a goldsmith from Kabul, told the BBC. "Every year it seems the wounds reopen and a new sense of defeat fills my heart. That day I felt as if the dreams I had held in my heart were suddenly taken away from me.".
Afghanistan is also one of the countries where it is recorded one of the highest maternal mortality rates: there is one midwife for every 4000 women and because of the restrictions placed on male doctors, in the absence of female health personnel, women are abandoned to their own devices.
Despite the countless violations of human rights, the proclamations, the appeals to the international community, the declarations of solidarity, the reports, orToday there is no hope of changing the situation. Just a month ago six members of the NGO Women and Children Legal Research Foundation in Kabul were made to disappear by the regimeTo this day, their families do not know where they ended up.
Despite this Afghanistan's brave women refuse to be silenced and continue to demand “Rights, Justice, Freedom.”.
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