On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss rising violence against women and girls, activists, and journalists in Afghanistan.
On Monday, the Taliban arrested prominent girls' education activist Matiullah Wesa in Kabul. In his last tweet before his arrest, he wrote: “Men, women, elderly, young, everyone from every corner of the country are asking for the Islamic rights to education for their daughters."
Afghanistan is dealing with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 97 percent of Afghans are living in poverty, up from 47 percent in 2020.
Guest:
Dr. Halima Kazem, journalist, Oral Historian and Project Manager for Stanford University’s Hoover Afghanistan Research and Relief Team, and post-doctoral fellow at UC Santa Cruz
Web Resources:
Amnesty International: Amnesty International’s Annual Report on 2022/23 highlights global double standards
The Guardian: Founder of Afghan girls’ school project arrested in Kabul
BBC: Afghanistan girls' education: 'When I see the boys going to school, it hurts'
UN News: Funding drought forces UN food agency to cut rations in Afghanistan
The Washington Post: In Afghanistan, women and girls are being erased
