One year after the fundamentalist Taliban swept into Kabul, Canadian human rights researcher Corey Levine describes what she saw on the ground when she…
KABUL — Lailuma is a lecturer at a government university in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Although the Taliban have banned girls’ education past grade six, Lailuma has managed to hold on to her job — sort of. She no longer gets paid. The authorities claim they can’t afford to pay her, although her male counterparts are still compensated for their labour. “I think the Taliban are hoping I will quit my job.
• Fariba is a civil servant who lost her job at a government ministry when the Taliban swept back into power. Although not all female federal employees were fired , the noose has been tightening on the right of Afghan women to work. Last month, • Soraya, who has a BA in English literature and an MA in gender studies from Kabul University, runs a handicraft shop to provide an income to uneducated women. Until last August, she had more than 50 employees, but now worries she won’t be able to stay open much longer.
• Malalai, who lost her job as a teacher at local girls’ school when the Taliban banned girls’ education, also had to close her women’s NGO when donors and the rest of the international community deserted Afghanistan last August. Now she makes short films about life in Afghanistan and sends them to an Afghan filmmaker in Finland as the only way for her voice to be heard.
Their social media posts are done through a loose-knit organization called Farkhunda media, named for a young religious-studies woman who was brutally attacked, then burned alive, by a mob of men in Kabul in 2015.
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