Afghan woman is crying in unbearable pain. Her voice carries the pain of millions of women in Afghanistan. She says: “The Taliban fired at my heart and at my head because I demanded my rights, my education, and my freedom. They attacked us Afghan women, harassed us, and tried to silence us for raising our voices.” Her tears are not just tears, they are the cries of a nation’s daughters being abandoned by the world. Every tear she sheds tells a story of suffering, fear, and broken dreams. It is heartbreaking to witness women begging for their basic rights while the world remains silent. How much more pain must Afghan women endure before the world finally listens? Where is the United Nations? Where is the international community? Where is the EU? Why are you silent? The silence is heartbreaking. The silence is painful. The silence is dangerous. This silence is enabling normalization. I call on each of you: raise your voice. Stand for humanity. Stand for Afghan women’s rights. Stand for women’s and girls’ education. Stand against gender apartheid in Afghanistan. Silence in the face of oppression is complicity. The women and girls of Afghanistan must not be abandoned.