Statement of the Women's Movement of Afghanistan in Exile on the Occasion of Teacher's Day

Statement of the Women's Movement of Afghanistan in Exile on the Occasion of Teacher's Day

As we commemorate Teacher's Day, we do so at a time when in our homeland, Afghanistan, the light of knowledge has been extinguished in many homes, and the voices of teachers and students have fallen into enforced silence. Today, thousands of Afghan girls are deprived of their natural right to education, and teachers — these beacons of awareness — are either living in hardship and isolation or fading into the bitter silence of neglect.

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