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September 20, 2021

Women and Girls Increasingly Left Out of Education, Public Life in Afghanistan After Taliban Takeover
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Most secondary classes in Afghanistan resumed without female students,
as their fate remains unclear under the new Taliban leadership, who only
explicitly ordered male students to return to the classroom. Some boys
refused to attend class until all students were allowed to return.
Meanwhile, the new Taliban mayor of Kabul told female municipal
employees not to come into work. On Sunday, women activists rallied in
front of the building which used to house the Ministry of Women's
Affairs in Kabul - an agency the Taliban has done away with.

Taranum Sayeedi: "You cannot suppress the voice of Afghan women by
keeping girls at home and restricting them, as well as by not allowing
them to go to school. You cannot suppress the voice of Afghanistan's
women. By turning the Ministry of Women into a Ministry of the Promotion
of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, you cannot suppress Afghanistan's
women."

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reports at least seven people were killed after a
series of blasts in Kabul and in the eastern city of Jalalabad Saturday.
ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attacks.