Powerful Women’s Movement: Depriving Afghan girls of education is extinguishing the future of a nation

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Four years after the Taliban’s takeover, the doors of girls’ schools above grade six and universities remain closed. During this period, international institutions and various countries have repeatedly called for the reopening of schools and universities, but the Taliban have taken no practical action in this regard.

The Powerful Women’s Movement, on the occasion of International Literacy Day (September 8), condemned this deprivation through a statement and called it a clear violation of human rights and the extinguishing of the future of a nation. The statement said: “The only crime of Afghan girls is being women.”

This movement emphasized that the Taliban, with discriminatory policies, have deprived millions of girls of the right to education. Literacy is not only reading and writing, it is the light of freedom, justice and progress, and extinguishing it means darkening the future of Afghanistan.

According to the movement, no society reaches prosperity and progress without educated and aware women, and depriving girls of education pushes Afghanistan toward destruction.

The Powerful Women’s Movement has called on the United Nations, the Human Rights Council and the international community to break the silence against this systematic discrimination, to put pressure on the Taliban to reopen schools and universities for girls, and to reflect the silenced voices of Afghan girls at the global level.

In conclusion, the movement emphasized: “Without educated women, Afghanistan will not be saved and without the right to education, lasting peace is not possible.”