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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 06:23 AM Aug 2022

Back to middle ages (again, again)



On the first anniversary of the fall of Afghanistan - women again have to veil up to leave the house...

The girls are yet again being restricted and punished for the sin of having a vagina... Save the Children released a report the other day that found:

97% of families are struggling to provide enough food for their children, and that girls are eating less than boys.
Almost 80% of children said they had gone to bed hungry in the past 30 days. Girls were almost twice as likely as boys to frequently go to bed hungry.
Nine in 10 girls said their meals had reduced in the past year and that they worry because they’re losing weight and have no energy to study, play and work.
More than 45% of girls said they’re not attending school – compared with 20% of boys – listing economic challenges, the Taliban’s ban on girls attending secondary school classes as well as community attitudes as the key barriers preventing them from accessing education.
https://www.savethechildren.net/news/one-year-under-taliban-rule-girls-are-more-isolated-hungry-sad-new-report
Emphasis mine

The Absence Of Women (again, again), and it breaks my heart. Women silenced, girls uneducated, girls going hungry to feed the boys. We knew it would happen, it was inevitable and predictable. Public executions and male escorts stat. *sigh*
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