{"id":49934,"date":"2022-11-03T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/03\/jamila-afghani-taliban-education-aurora-prize-women-afghanistan"},"modified":"2022-11-03T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:45:08","slug":"no-darkness-is-for-ever-can-an-activist-in-exile-persuade-the-taliban-to-allow-teaching-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49934","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No darkness is for ever\u2019: can an activist in exile persuade the Taliban to allow teaching on TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regime\u2019s closure of her support and literacy centres for women and girls was crushing, but Jamila Afghani is looking for ways to build a brighter future for the Afghan women she left behind <\/p>\n<p>Jamila Afghani was settling into her new home in Kitchener, Ontario, when she found out that the Taliban had raided her office back in Afghanistan. Uniformed officers had barged into a counselling service for women in Kabul, accused the staff of running \u201ca ministry of women\u201d and taken one of the employees away for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Afghani had chosen the premises in the capital in part because of its proximity to the Ministry of Women\u2019s Affairs, where she had good contacts who supported her work championing the rights of women and girls. When the Taliban replaced the women\u2019s ministry with the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Afghani\u2019s organisation found itself working under the nose of the morality police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/03\/jamila-afghani-taliban-education-aurora-prize-women-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regime\u2019s closure of her support and literacy centres for women and girls was crushing, but Jamila Afghani is looking for ways to build a brighter future for the Afghan women she left behind Jamila Afghani was settling into her new home in Kitchener&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3411,"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":[559,46,615,59,494,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-global-development","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","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\/49934","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\/3411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49935,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934\/revisions\/49935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}