{"id":41580,"date":"2022-02-10T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/10\/we-have-never-given-up-how-afghan-women-are-demanding-their-education-under-the-taliban"},"modified":"2022-02-10T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:00:18","slug":"we-have-never-given-up-how-afghan-women-are-demanding-their-education-under-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41580","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have never given up\u2019: how Afghan women are demanding their education under the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since recapturing Afghanistan, the Taliban have largely if inconsistently closed down girls\u2019 schooling \u2013 but have found a new generation ready to fight for the right to study<\/p>\n<p>When the Taliban reached Parveen Tokhi\u2019s home province of Zabul in mid-August and asked to use her school as a temporary barracks, the headteacher was frightened but clear about what she had to do.<\/p>\n<p>She spent the bleak years of the first Taliban government in the 1990s stuck at home like almost all Afghan women, barred from education and work. She was determined that the same shadow wouldn\u2019t engulf another generation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/10\/we-have-never-given-up-how-afghan-women-are-demanding-their-education-under-the-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since recapturing Afghanistan, the Taliban have largely if inconsistently closed down girls\u2019 schooling \u2013 but have found a new generation ready to fight for the right to studyWhen the Taliban reached Parveen Tokhi\u2019s home province of Zabul in mid-August &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2898,"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":[46,59,61,44,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/41580","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\/2898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41581,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41580\/revisions\/41581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}