Women's Education and Rights in Afghanistan

Afghan women, we are not fighting for the freedom for us to walk around our country without

a headscarf, or for our feet to be exposed, or for our hands to be uncovered.

We only want education, our human rights, and dignity

to be safe in our own country. To go shopping freely, to travel,

to visit our provinces, to work and study, to serve

our country.

So, Afghan women, um, what have they done that they are always

oppressed, killed, and forced into marriage?

Can you still hear me?

I can, I can. Go ahead, please. I can hear you.

Regarding this matter of work and education

for women,

I have no answer for you or for my other sisters

around the world

—no answer I can give you that would satisfy you about

why they are not allowed an education and why they are not allowed to work.

They are not allowed.

I still have not found an answer to this question.

Whatever the discussion may be,

I join in and take part in the discussion.

But regarding women's education and

women's work, I understand

If Afghan women do not want Turkey's freedom

or Europe's freedom,

and do not want the education available in Europe and America.

But

given the needs of Afghan society,

we

need women's education and women's employment.

And no—

God bless you.

There is absolutely no way to justify this—

Ah, this cannot be a justification for someone to say that there was

moral corruption in the university or at workplaces,

moral corruption.

Moral corruption cannot be a justification.

It must—

General Sir—

The system, the system must be arranged so that

this can be prevented.

General Sir, I have a question—

One university, one person, two people, ten people.