“Women in Afghanistan are fighting an unequal war.”
What I'm reading from Zahra Joya, Mona Chalabi and others
“Women in Afghanistan are fighting an unequal war.”
— Zahra Joya in The Guardian (Sept. 6, 2023)
In these past two years, it seems that the vast majority of Afghan men support women’s education, but this consensus has never been utilised as a means of mobilising people against the unacceptable situation under the Taliban. Women are left alone in their fight against the Taliban.
In these two years, we at Rukhshana have written and reported on the pain of protesting women who were flogged by Taliban fighters. We have written about the murder and disappearance of policewomen who, with the support of the west after 9/11, fought against inequalities in a patriarchal society and made room for themselves in the system.
Zahra Joya, an Afghan journalist living in London, founded and is the the editor-in-chief of Rukhshana Media, a news agency for and about women and girls in Afghanistan.
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