Education Apartheid in Afghanistan was World Affairs Council of Orange County’s first ever Lunch and Learn, in partnership with UC Irvine’s School of Law’s Center on Globalization, Law, and Society and the Afghan Literacy Foundation.
Aditya Arya, executive director and co-founder of the Afghan Literacy Foundation, Hashmat Nadipor, legal expert and leader of the Afghanistan Human Rights Project at UCI Law, and Muslema Purell, assistant religious director at The Majlis, spoke on the impacts of Taliban’s policies on young girls’ and womens’ access to education during this hour-long lunchtime program.
After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, women and girls rapidly returned to schools, creating effects such as increased economy and lower infant mortality rate.
The three experts discussed the short and long-term implications of the termination of both basic and higher education for women after the return of the Taliban in 2021, not just for women, but what it means economically and societally.
