{"id":35889,"date":"2021-08-25T17:43:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/25\/afghanistan-teachers-defend-girls-education-taliban-international-aid"},"modified":"2021-08-25T17:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:43:40","slug":"dont-avert-your-eyes-afghan-teachers-urge-world-to-defend-girls-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35889","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t avert your eyes\u2019: Afghan teachers urge world to defend girls\u2019 education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Educators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban\u2019s desire for international legitimacy to be used as leverage<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s only boarding school for girls has temporarily relocated to Rwanda, its co-founder has said, just days after a video of her burning class records to avoid Taliban recriminations was widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Shabana Basij-Rasikh, who escaped Kabul with 250 students and staff, urged the world to \u201cnot avert your eyes\u201d from the millions of girls left behind.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/25\/afghanistan-teachers-defend-girls-education-taliban-international-aid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban\u2019s desire for international legitimacy to be used as leverageAfghanistan\u2019s only boarding school for girls has temporarily relocated to Rwanda, its co-founder has said,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,615,59,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35890,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35889\/revisions\/35890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}