Stolen education: What’s happened since Taliban banned women from university in Afghanistan
Global News
This week marks one year since the Taliban abruptly banned women from universities, making Afghanistan the only country in the world with restrictions on female education.
Zahra Rajabi started her first year of journalism school in December 2022, but just a few weeks into the semester classes were abruptly cancelled.
“We completely said goodbye to each other, crying,” she told Global News.
The 20-year-old from Kabul is one of millions of Afghan women and girls deprived of their right to learn. This week marks one year since the Taliban abruptly banned women from universities, making Afghanistan the world’s only country with restrictions on female education.
“I had a lot of ambitions and dreams and plans,” Rajabi said.
Those plans are on hold indefinitely.
Last year’s ban is part of an escalating crackdown since the Afghan government fell in August 2021 and the Taliban seized control. Months after the takeover, the Taliban barred girls from going to school. Next, it targeted higher education, outlawing them from post-secondary institutions.
Hadia Nasiri was in her second year of engineering at Kabul Polytechnic University when women were suddenly shut out.
Since then, the 20-year-old said she has struggled with depression, trapped at home, and robbed of an education. The Taliban is trying to “destroy” women and girls, she told Global News.
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