More than 900 days have now passed since girls over 12 were first banned from education. According to Unicef, the ban has now impacted some 1.4m Afghan girls.
The future for many of Afghanistan’s girls is “bleak”, warns Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International’s regional campaigner - pointing to the fact young girls are continuing to be married off when they reach puberty, and are further endangered by the Taliban’s rollback of laws designed to protect women in abusive marriages.
For myself I try to stay 500 yards away from religion at all times, but living in Utah that just isn’t possible. When I told my mormon neighbors I wasnt’ religious (Despite my forefathers being prominent founders of the Mormon church) they just said, “well we all come to god in different ways.”
It was like they hadn’t even heard or considered the idea I was expressing. It just isn’t possible in their minds to even conceive of not building your life around religious beliefs.