LETTERS FROM THE FRONT
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A Mother’s Concern For Her Daughters
“I’m concerned about the elimination of sex segregation in changing rooms, locker rooms & bathrooms in schools, work places, and public facilities.“
From A Silenced Sister
“Gender identity ideology prevents me from speaking about the abuse and alienation my sisters and I faced at the hands of our brother, who now identifies as a transgender woman.“
We live in a war zone
In college, a stranger in a ski mask held a gun to my head, threatened to kill me, and sexually assaulted me. Police and university administrators accused me of lying.
“In Afghanistan, divorce is always the woman's fault”
“Divorced women in Afghanistan confront numerous other challenges beyond finding a life partner — financial difficulties, insecurity, and social stigma.“
There is no Hope for Girls and Women in Here
The Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education has "suspended" girls' education in all public and private universities. If there is no school, no university, then what will our future be like? My heart is full of pain. I don't see hope or a good future for me, my sisters, and all other young students like me and other girls.
Aren't I a human with rights?
I hope that legislators will rise to the challenge of understanding the fear of the women, the countless young girls, men, and children who can't grow up mentally and/or physically healthy in the climate that they are being groomed in today. I fear that we will not be able to create mentally and physically healthy citizens from here on if we continue down the path we are reaching.
Women’s Rights in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover
Afghan women have not accepted the status quo and they are finding ways to hold the Taliban to account on women’s rights. Even as the Taliban have prevented women across Afghanistan from working, education and freedom and told them to stay at home, women have resisted. From inside our homes, we work and help girls, women, and children.
Family Court Removes Women as Parents
My child is kept in a hostage state, brainwashed to deny the violence she herself has experienced at his hands, and surrounded by teachers and social workers who have framed her mother as the cause of her pain and her father as her saviour.
They Call It "Inclusion,” I Call It Danger for Women
Latinas live with misogyny every day of our life, and sadly many don't even realize. It is so stuck in our heads, that we do harmful things to our own sex, like promoting gender ideology.