Jade-Abresham Weekly: A number of Women’s Rights Movement members opened a library named women library with the cooperation of the Cristal Bayat Foundation on August 24.
Female founders of the library mentioned their goal to improve the book reading culture among women and cheap provision of books for girls and women who can’t afford money to buy books or are unemployed.
“15 August was a black day in the life of the Afghans and especially Afghan women. Elimination of women forms the first and most outstanding priority of the Taliban in the country. It includes barring girls from education and closing the doors of schools on them.” The movement added.
“Women’s library will be managed by Afghan women to ensure the presence of women through books and learning in the public sphere.” The movement added.
Though the Taliban make efforts to silence and eliminate women from the public sphere; these women’s rights activists will pursue different ways and means to improve the reading culture and knowledge of women and prevent the elimination of women from the public scene by the Taliban and to hold raised the torch of struggles for freedom of women in the country.
Some months ago women gathered for book reading in the libraries and protested the Taliban anti-gender policies, but such gatherings were stopped when security threats increased against them.
Five months have passed since the beginning of the new educational year in Afghanistan but the Taliban have not opened the doors of schools to girls above grade 6.
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