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Hakim

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2022-06-23
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2022-06-23
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  1. “However, the question that Afghan women and girls repeatedly ask me is if they have been forgotten. Does the outside world care, and if so, what is it prepared to do? I would ask Council members to ask themselves the answer they would give to the women and girls of Afghanistan when they ask that question.”

    2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source

  2. “In 2018 the Yalda Hakim Foundation was created, and for three years it sponsored scholarships for female students from the American University of Afghanistan and supported them in obtaining higher- education placements at Georgetown University in Qatar and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Today the Foundation is continuing its work to create education opportunities for Afghans, especially girls and women. The demand for education among young Afghans is greater than ever, but the opportunities are dramatically fewer. The questions that I hear most often among young Afghans are whether the international community can provide more scholarships and how technology can be leveraged to help Afghans who cannot leave Afghanistan continue to learn. I am grateful to the Government of Albania for the invitation to speak to the Council today.”

    2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source

  3. “Female news presenter Farida Sial of TOLOnews told me that every day she feels a part of her is dying and that the face covering makes it extremely difficult to speak and breathe, especially for long periods of time while broadcasting. As a journalist, I have covered many war zones. I have seen bloodshed and devastation caused by conflict. However, what is happening in Afghanistan is unique. To the best of my knowledge, it is the most sudden and significant change in the position of women to take place anywhere in the world in modern history. One year ago, Afghan girls went to school. Afghan women held positions of authority across Afghan society. All of that has been overturned with exceptional speed. I am also here in my capacity as a philanthropist.”

    2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source

  4. “One activist, Marzia, told me that she continues to receive threatening phone calls and now has no choice but to move from safe house to safe house. Just last month, on 9 May, the Taliban ordered women and older girls to cover their faces when in public and avoid being outside at all, if possible. Punishments for violating the decree would be inflicted on their male family members. On 21 May, the Taliban’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue ordered all women television presenters to cover their faces, stating that the decision was final and there was no room for discussion. In response, male presenters at several major news channels in Afghanistan wore masks on air in solidarity.”

    2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source

  5. “Sheila had many hopes for her daughter’s future and the future of her students. But now she feels that she has betrayed them for telling them to have big dreams. Like so many other brave and fearless Afghan women, this mother of three refuses to be erased from public life and told me that she will continue to fight for the rights of Afghan girls and women. It is that steely determination that gives Sheila and a small band of women the courage to take to the streets in protest — risking beatings, arrest or worse. Some of the female protesters to whom I spoke told me they have had Taliban gunmen point weapons at them, pepper spray them and shout insults. We have also been hearing disturbing reports that the Taliban abduct and detain some of those female protesters. Those disappearances have sent a chill across Afghan civil society.”

    2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source

  6. “Sheila held back tears as she told me about the day she took her two young children to demonstrate against Taliban restrictions on girls’ education. She relayed to me how she explained to her children that they were risking their lives for the protest, but it was a price worth paying if it helped to allow girls to return to school. Before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the mother of three was a teacher at a secondary school. However, like millions of other female Government workers, Sheila was ordered to stop going to work. She now sits at home alongside her 12-year-old daughter, Mursal, who has been banned from attending school. Sheila was a teenager when the Taliban first came to power, in the 1990s. She told me she does not want her daughter to be deprived of an education like she was.”

    2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source

  7. “I also hope I can convey to Security Council members some of the questions that I am often asked by Afghans, in particular the women and girls in Afghanistan, whose voices are especially important and should be heard at this time. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on 15 August of last year has had a transformative impact on the position of women and girls in Afghan society. Today marks 279 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. As Mr. Griffiths said, Afghanistan is now the only country in the world in which girls are prevented from receiving an education. They are locked out of their classrooms simply because of their gender. Millions of Afghan girls across Afghanistan have been forced to contemplate a life without formal education. During my last trip to the country, in December 2021, I met 42-year-old Sheila Dost.”

    2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source

  8. “Ms. Hakim: My name is Yalda Hakim, and I am an international correspondent and news presenter for BBC News. As mentioned, in the past 48 hours there have been terrible developments in Afghanistan, with an earthquake in the east of the country leaving more than 1,000 dead. Hundreds of families are now homeless, and there are reports of people remaining trapped under the rubble. I come here today not as an activist or policymaker but as a journalist and someone who has been reporting from Afghanistan for the past 15 years. I also come here today as a daughter of Afghanistan. I have a very personal and deep connection with the nation. It is the country of my birth. In my remarks today, I hope to share some of my observations drawn from my years of reporting on Afghanistan.”

    2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source