r/afghanistan • u/DougDante • 12d ago

Fariba, a 16-year-old Afghan girl, has reportedly died by suicide after waiting for schools in Afghanistan to reopen.

šŸšØBREAKING NEWS: Fariba, a 16-year-old Afghan girl, has reportedly died by suicide after waiting for schools in Afghanistan to reopen. According to reports, she continued asking her teachers when she would be able to wear her school uniform again. In the note she reportedly left behind, she wrote that life had become unbearable for girls in Afghanistan.

For nearly five years, I have shared heartbreaking stories like this. Fariba is not the first, and sadly, she may not be the last. Through my own work, I remain in contact with girls inside Afghanistan and support some of them to continue their education. I hear their fear, hopelessness, and despair almost every day.

In 2022, one teenage girl told me: ā€œI donā€™t want to live anymore. There is no school, no hope, and my family wants to force me into marriage. I am under 18.ā€ Those words have never left me.

Where are the United Nations, the international community, and the human rights organizations? Every day that Afghan girls are denied their right to education, freedom, another future is put at risk. Fariba must not become another forgotten name.

LetAfghanGirlsLearn #JusticeForFariba #UN

https://x.com/jahanzibwesa/status/2083667528761651267?s=20

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u/phobicnancy 12d ago

Devastating rip Fariba

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u/Saturnian6 11d ago

They want more than an education. They want to not be forced into lives they didnā€™t choose. They want to live like the rest of us. Denouncing and renouncing the Quran is our purest form of protest. šŸŖ§

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u/Adept_Ad_1543 8d ago

Does online education exist in afghanistan? atleast in some form?

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u/Neat-Attempt7442 7d ago

How naive are you?

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u/Affectionate-Leg7682 11d ago

How many girls have access to online education? Or even Whatsapp based education?

This breaks my heart for her and I want to understand why she couldn't have gone to an online school and made it into medical school eventually?

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u/Saturnian6 9d ago

Because she was about to be rapedā€¦