(18 Sep 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul - 17 September 2023
1. Various of Afghan women in downtown market
2. University student, 20-years-old Sahar (goes with one name) entering her living room
3. Shot of Sahar reading book
4. Tilt down shot from Sahar's face to phone
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sahar, University student:
"It is obvious, when the universities are not open we will not have doctors, or teachers, or psychologists in future and slowly, slowly our society will drown in darkness. We want the universities to be open again, so we can continue our studies."
6. Various of Taliban police checkpoint
7. Armed Taliban police
8. Setup shot of women rights activist and analyst, Mina Momtaz
9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Mina Momtaz, women rights activist and analyst:
"The ban on higher education for girls has change the mindset of some families, they believe, now that their daughter can't study anymore it is better for them to get married, which has sparked the growing number of early marriages. further more, if we talk about future generation, today we have a fable doctor, but in future we will not have one, because an illiterate women will never become a doctor."
10. Various of Taliban police checkpost
11. Taliban police searching vehicle
12. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Mina Momtaz, women rights activist and analyst:
"If we are not educated, Afghanistan's future would be darker than 20 years ago, and day by day we would be marching towards the collapse of a generation. Even the Islamic Emirate Government will find the whole world standing again them rather than getting recognition from the world."
13. Various of 10th grade high school student, 18-year-old Zahra (goes with one name) dusting off her school uniform
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Zahra, high school stuedent:
"I was in 10th grade, when I heard that I can no longer go to school, I was very upset that day. This is my uniform, which I still have it, I just hope that the schools are open again to I can put on my uniform and go back to school."
15. Various of city
STORYLINE:
Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school past sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country with restrictions on female education.

Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday in New York. The U.N. children’s agency says over 1 million girls are affected by the ban.

It triggered global condemnation and remains the Taliban’s biggest obstacle to gaining recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan. But the Taliban has gone further, excluding women and girls from higher education, public spaces like parks and most jobs.

20-year-old Sahar was in her last semester of Kapisa Engineering Faculty, when Taliban last year in December banned female Universities.

Almost a year after the closure of universities for girls, Sahar believes that if the ban continues the future of the country will drown into darkness.

The Taliban stopped girls’ education beyond sixth grade because they said it didn’t comply with their interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia. They didn’t stop it for boys. In the past two years, they’ve shown no signs of progress in creating the conditions they say are needed for girls to return to class.

Their perspective on girls’ education partly comes from a specific school of 19th century Islamic thought and partly from rural areas where tribalism is entrenched.

Women's rights activist and analyst Mina Momtaz said the ban on girls' higher education has sparked a growing number early or forced marriages in the families.









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