We cannot cheer on Afghanistan’s cricket team when Afghan women are being silenced | Zahra Joya
With Afghanistan set to play England in a tournament, we are calling for a boycott of a team that sportswashes the Taliban’s brutal campaign of misogyny
Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, Afghan women have been experiencing a situation that is unparalleled in other parts of the world.
Thanks to the Taliban and their obsessive campaign of misogyny, Afghan girls cannot go to secondary school. Women cannot go to public parks, beauty parlours or public buildings.
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