Afghanistan girls’ education: ‘When I see the boys going to school, it hurts’
Afghan teenage girls describe feeling “broken” at being barred from attending school under Taliban rule. …
“Twice when the Taliban shut the library, we managed to reopen it. But the threats increased day by day. I got phone calls saying how dare I open a library for women. Once they came to the library and told women that they had no right to read books,” says Laila. “It became too risky to run it, so I had to take the inevitable decision to shut it down.”
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