susannah tarbush

👉🏿 I urge everyone to watch Banished: The Taliban’s War on Women, the latest powerful and deeply disturbing documentary by the outstanding and courageous journalist @AlexCrawfordSky. Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, Alex Crawford returns to expose the devastating consequences of their systematic persecution of Afghan women and girls, who continue to be stripped of their fundamental human rights, denied education, employment and freedom of movement, and increasingly erased from public life. What Afghan women and girls are enduring is nothing less than gender apartheid and a form of modern-day slavery. The Taliban have imposed a brutal system of institutionalised oppression and subjugation upon an entire female population, stripping women and girls of their fundamental rights, their freedom, their independence and their autonomy over their own lives. They are being denied the right to determine their own futures, reduced to a condition of enforced submission and deprived of their dignity and humanity. Yet, despite this relentless persecution, Afghan women continue to demonstrate extraordinary courage and determination, refusing to surrender their rights or abandon their hopes for a better future. I commend Alex Crawford for her unwavering commitment to exposing these grave injustices and giving a voice to women whose courage and resistance deserve the world’s attention and solidarity. The international community must not look away. We cannot stand by while an entire generation of Afghan girls is deprived of an education, its dreams and its future. The Taliban must be held accountable for their systematic violations of women’s and girls’ fundamental human rights. Silence is not neutrality. Indifference is complicity. The world must act. Afghan women and girls must not be abandoned. 🎥 Please watch and share this essential documentary: youtu.be/XXpg5jKt6Cg #Afghanistan #GenderApartheid #StandWithAfghanWomen #HumanRights #LetAfghanGirlsLearn