Posted on 03/27/2023 10:47:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
"Every day I wake up with the hope of going back to school. They [the Taliban] keep saying they will open schools. But it's been almost two years now. I don't believe them. It breaks my heart," says 17-year-old Habiba.
She blinks and bites her lip trying hard not to tear up.
Habiba and her former classmates Mahtab and Tamana are among hundreds of thousands of teenage girls who have been barred from attending secondary school in most of Afghanistan by the Taliban - the only country to take such action.
One-and-a-half years since their lives were brought to a halt, their grief is still raw.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Marie Carrie in physics and chemistry. My hero!
It took a long time for that to filter down to my blue collar neighborhood.
can’t they just identify as boys and go to school?
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