This Monday marks one year since the Taliban seized power. The country’s sexist policies have hit women hard, who have taken to the streets on several occasions to demand change. Also in Euskal Herria, the Afghan women will do the same on August 16 in Bilbao.
Euskaraz irakurri: Nilofar Bayat: “Afganist genre apartheid – a gertatzen ari da”
It’s been a year now Nilofar Bayat He arrived in Bilbao fleeing from Afghanistan. He left the country on the plane chartered by the Spanish government after the Taliban seized power. Bayat, a lawyer, is a staunch defender of women’s rights and a member of the basketball team Bidadakin a wheelchair, in the mixed group, together with men.
It currently has the status of refugee and that’s it he has all his relatives close, in the Basque Country. As she explained about the Euskadi Irratia program ‘Faktoria’, they have been here for a month now and she is very happy: “With us we now have 18 relatives, a wonderful family”.
Bayat says the Taliban went to his house to look for his relatives, but luckily they didn’t capture anyone. regrets that the country is no longer safe for anyoneso individually, the family began to leave Afghanistan, “where it is impossible to live.”
He says there is a lot of poverty there and there is hardly anything to eat, “there are many people begging on the street. They ask for help, but no one offers it.” According to international organizations, oreight in ten Afghan men and women live in extreme poverty. In the case of women, the situation is even more serious. “There is a gender apartheid happening, they want to destroy half of society – the Taliban – because we are women they don’t want us to existBayat condemns.
To put an end to this dire situation, the women of the country have taken to the streets today, “they have repeatedly said ‘enough is enough’ to the Taliban”, but they want impose terror on the country. He gave the example of what happened recently: “A young woman who protested was… kidnapped, beaten and gang rape by the Taliban; her and her sister.” In addition, she continued, her documentation has been revoked so that she could not leave Afghanistan, “neither she nor her relatives. It’s very sad.”
In these cases Bayat denounces that: the families themselves reject the victims, “they isolate them, they don’t accept them”. “It’s happening, it’s more of a crisis of society as a whole than of women,” he concludes.
All Afghan women take to the streets tuesday 16 august in Bilbao to put an end to this situation, “if we have permission from the City Council”, as announced by Bayat. “We will ask the world not to forget the Afghan women, and not the country.”
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Source: EITB
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