(12 Aug 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 29 July 2022
1. Tilt up of girl during English class in informal school for schoolgirls above sixth grade
2. Various of class
3. Various of Sodaba Nazhand, English language teacher and founder of informal school for girls, writing on whiteboard
4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sodaba Nazhand, English language teacher and founder of informal school for girls:
"After schools were closed for girls, I decided to provide an environment for girls in a hidden school for girls and we set up chairs and tables in a house so they can come and study here."
5. Various of girls during class
6. Teacher instructing students
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sodaba Nazhand, English language teacher and founder of informal school for girls:
"The closure of schools is not benefiting a government, it even weakens it, because if a woman gets educated it means that a whole society gets educated."
8. Dunya Arabzada, secondary school student, answering equation
9. Tilt-down from Arabzada's face to school textbook
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Dunya Arabzada, secondary school student:
"It is very disappointing, it is different to be in a proper school than here, but I see a lot of my classmates, who can't come here and they stay at home and it is very disappointing that girls are not allowed to go to schools."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 2 August 2022
11. Various of women rights activists and school students protesting against closure of school for girls
12. Close-up of banner reading (Dari) "Education is our basic right."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 20 July 2022
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Fiona Frazer, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan human rights service chief:
"The decision not to allow girls to return to secondary school means that a generation of girls will not complete their 12 years of basic education. The damage will not however be limited to that generation of girls alone, Afghanistan as a whole is being denied the benefit of women and girls' contribution to society."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 9 July 2022
14. Taliban flag sign on police arm badge
15. Various of Taliban check post in Kabul
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kabul – 29 July 2022
16. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sodaba Nazhand, English language teacher and founder of informal school for girls:
"The Taliban, with its extreme ideology that they have against women, have not changed, they are the same Taliban of 20 years ago, but we can't be the women of 20 years ago, we have to continue our struggle with the pen and our voices."
17. Various of students leaving the informal school after class
STORYLINE:
For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it's been a year since they set foot in a classroom.
With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for a generation of young women.
At a house in Kabul, dozens gathered on a recent day for classes in an informal school set up by Sodaba Nazhand.
She and her sister teach English, science and math to girls who should be in secondary school.
"When the Taliban wanted to take away the rights of education and the rights of work from women, I wanted to stand against their decision by teaching these girls," Nazhand told The Associated Press.
Hers is one of a number of underground schools in operation since the Taliban took over the country a year ago and banned girls from continuing their education past the sixth grade.
While the Taliban have permitted women to continue attending universities, this exception will become irrelevant when there are no more girls graduating from high schools.
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