Afghanistan has notoriously become the world’s only country where girls are forbidden from attending secondary schools. Girls in Afghanistan now leave school at 12 and never return.
TODAY would have been the first day of school for children in Afghanistan, but the government is only allowing boys to be educated.
Please stand with us as we demand: #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton & Zarifa Ghafari were in Oslo, Norway to take part in the Nobel Peace Center’s Forum on Afghanistan with a conversation moderated by Erik Aasheim.
Watch the full panel below, as they talk about #InHerHandsFilm and why we must continue to support the women of Afghanistan.
https://youtu.be/hAygzw_qLWo?t=4364
📸: Geir Anders Rybakken Ørslien/NPO
“We experienced freedoms & opportunities for the last 20 years, but everything changed. And now – I couldn’t imagine two years ago that this could happen to me, to Zarifa & so many other Afghan women – now, women are not able to go to work, become journalists… secondary girls are not able to go to school.”
- #InHerHandsFilm Co-Director Tamana Ayazi talking to Yalda Hakim on #BBCWorldNews about the new realities facing women in Afghanistan.