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Help Afghan Women and Girls Go Back to School Before the Taliban militia came to power in 1996, women and girls made up 50% of the university student population and 70% of all school teachers in Kabul. Soon after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, however, they banned women and girls from attending school. Today, Afghan women students and teachers risk their lives daily to make possible clandestine home schools. And women's organizations in Pakistan run schools for Afghan girl refugees. This autumn in the North, the FMF Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid will launch a Back to School Campaign to provide educational opportunities to Afghan women and girls, and increase pressure on the US and the UN to restore the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. You can join this campaign by getting your class, school, community group, friends, or family members to form an action team. You can take direct action by adopting an Afghan girl's school in Pakistan or Afghanistan, recruiting college scholarships for the Afghan Women's Scholarship Program, and by launching a petition campaign to urge the US government to do more to help Afghan women and girls. To learn how you can get involved with the Back To School Action Team Network, please visit this website. ..
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