Los Angeles, Aug 16 : Hollywood star Angelina Jolie who is renowned for her work in the field of humanitarianism, would like the world to be aware of the issues with women in the state of theocracy under the Taliban.Taliban rule in Afghanistan.The ‘Girls, Interrupted actor has recently written in an article in Time magazine in which she wrote about her experience of having a conversation with an Afghan refugee in Rome.She wrote “I recently had the pleasure of meeting an Afghan refugee in Rome who was months away from becoming a doctor when Taliban took over the Afghan government in August 2021.
Her sister who was studying dentistry was at the university.Her younger sisters had done extremely well in the school.”
It’s been one year since the Biden administration following Donald Trump’s directive, pulled out U.S.troops from Afghanistan and resulted in the Taliban’s control of Afghanistan.The US-Taliban agreement or the Doha Agreement laid the groundwork of the U.S.troops’ exit from Afghanistan and the subsequent control of Afghanistan by the Taliban.The agreement was concluded without taking the Afghan government into consideration.
Angelina was a writer about the calamities that erupted from the oppressive regime.”Overnight the refugees (the Afghan refugee and her family) along with 14 million of other Afghan women as well as girls lost the right to attend the university or high school and their rights to work and also their rights of moving around.”
“As we talked, she hugged her father who had worked for many years as an expert in rural development in Afghanistan.He abandoned everything when he left with his family.With tears flowing down her face, she said to me that she was not sad for herself but for the women of her country”, Angelina wrote in her article in ‘Time’.
Commenting on the development of Afghan women in the last two decades, Jolie wrote “One year ago, Afghan women worked as teachers, doctors police officers, artists lawyers, journalists, judges and elected politicians.Afghan children fought off numerous suicide attacks at their school buildings.”
She said that the progress made by Afghan women “has been reversible with incredible speed.”
“The daughters of Afghanistan are exceptional for their resilience, strength and resiliency,” she added.
She also detailed the conditions of Afghan women under the brutal regime.This included public beatings and political prison as well as kidnapping and forced marriages to Taliban leaders in her essay.
“Yet despite the risks, the most powerful resistance to change of women’s rights in Afghanistan has not come from foreign forces rather, it has come the Afghan women themselves who have protested in the streets,” Jolie wrote.
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