"I took pills to die so I could be permanently free from the Taliban, but I survived misfortune..." "Even death didn't accompaniment me, let alone life..." "Where should I go, so that my name and trace of being a girl will not remain? Believe me, I am tired of this oppression of the Taliban..." "I just wanted to become a midwife, but my education was once again died..." These are direct quotes from girls who say they attempted suicide due to the ban on education in medical in

December 3rd is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, but many women and girls with disabilities in Afghanistan complain about the additional challenges and hardships they face, saying they are living in difficult conditions.

"My father sold me to feed his stomach." "The pain of the 100 lashes the Taliban gave me in front of the public is engraved in my brain, mind, and bones." "My father is more cruel than the Taliban. I am sick, I weave carpets to earn money to go to the doctor, but my father says, why should a girl go to the doctor?" These are the quotes of Afghan girls and women who are experiencing their tragic lives under the shadow of the gun and the so-called Islamic regime of the Taliban.

Marina Sadat, a young girl, fell victim to a horrific crime last December. She was arrested by Taliban's "Virtue and Vice" agents in the Dasht-e-Barchi area on charges of "improper hijab." 21 days after her arrest, her body was found in a sack next to a stream in the Paghman district of Kabul.