Afghan women banned from parks

[ArabellaScott]

It's always depressing starting these threads, because there seems to be little to nothing that anyone in the UK can do about the situation.

But in the spirit of bearing witness:

'Women are banned from visiting parks in Kabul by the hardline ruling Taliban.
... Women were also recently barred from swimming pools and gyms in the capital.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63756621

One heartening note is this women's library:

'Activist Laila Basim has co-founded a library for women. It has thousands of books in different languages on diverse subjects.

"With this we want to show the Taliban that Afghan women won't stay silent and our second goal is to expand the culture of reading books among women, particularly those girls who are deprived of education," she says.'

Stupid ignorant men getting high and getting their thrill from the power and violence.
That's what I see, men that are useless to this country but give them a gun or a whip then they're 'all powerful'.

Imagine how depressing to be a tween/teenage girl and realising how small your world is about to become and how limited your choices will be.

So true. There must be an overwhelming sense of dread as the age which has been deemed the switching point approaches. All the things you've done and enjoyed as a child just stripped away.

Also here to bear witness. They aren't forgotten.

It's beyond awful and makes me feel helpless.