TO very little distance by the ban imposed by the Taliban on Afghan women Of access the most important national park in the countrythe regime announces another: female students will not be able to leave the country to study in Dubaithe city where they were supposed to start their courses.
New bans for Afghan women
Talking to the BBC, telling her story is Natkai, a 20-year-old student (the name is fictitious). «After the universities were closed to us women, my only hope was get a scholarship to help me study abroad» explained the young woman. A hope dashed against the latest ban.
Stop scholarships abroad
When the 20-year-old arrived at the airport on July 20, Taliban officials checked her tickets and told the girl she was not allowed to leave Afghanistan on a student visa. With her another 60 female students were ready to leave, all refused boarding.
Yet another ban for Afghan women: this time it is female students who pay the price for the Taliban regime (Getty)
This latest move by the fundamentalist government has also caused dismay among rights groups and diplomats. And former UN Youth Representative in Afghanistan Shkula Zadran posted a message urging the university not to give up girls.
Suicides increase, women lose hope
But if the continuous limitations established by officials are worrying, it is even more so the increase in the number of suicides and attempted suicides. The alarm was sounded by Alison Davidian, national representative of UN Women, the United Nations Entity for gender equality and women’s empowerment. The man explained that, in all probability, more and more girls and women are losing hope and they see death as preferable to life under current circumstances.
The growth of the phenomenon was revealed by data collected in public hospitals and mental health clinics in a third of the country’s provinces. Although, in fact, they were obviously not authorized by the Taliban authorities, the doctors, as reported by the Guardian, however, they have privately released these estimatescollected from August 2021 to August 2022, highlighting not only an urgent public health crisis, but a very sad reality.
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