Commentary: The world should pressure the Taliban to allow girls a proper education
by Metra Mehran and Natalie Gonnella-Platts, Chicago Tribune
Nov 28, 2022
3 minutes
The student is a woman majoring in computer science at a private university in Afghanistan, but since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last year, the main thing that she seems to be studying is the regime’s manipulation of Islam.
The authorities mandated that she and her classmates take — and pay for — four religion classes each semester, leaving little time for computer science. But she’s one of the lucky ones. Her
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