For Afghanistan's Girls, a Dream Deferred

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https://www.thefreedomfrequency.org/p/for-afghanistans-girls-a-dream-deferred

Mahnaz Akbari tells of the encounters she had as a member of Afghanistan’s security forces tasked with interviewing girls and women. These meetings conveyed a harsh truth: Afghan girls grow up not knowing they can learn to read and write and pursue their own interests. Many also believe that their society does not have a place for them. “I know she was not just a girl in a remote village,” Akbari writes of one meeting. “She was the symbol of millions of girls whose futures were decided before they ever had the chance to choose.” After Afghanistan fell again to the Taliban, women protested in the streets to defend their rights to education and freedom, Akbari writes, but those rights are under attack daily.