On March 4, 2020, Gafari, the youngest female mayor of Afghanistan, delivered a speech at the annual International Women’s Courage Award (IWOC) ceremony held by the US State Department. (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
[See China News on August 17, 2021]AfghanistanThe youngest female mayor and feministGafariTold the British media that she had received death threats many times, and nowTalibanOnce on stage, she can only wait to be executed; the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winnerMalalaHe also expressed that he was very worried about the situation in Afghanistan. Especially the safety of women and girls, calling on global leaders to take urgent action.
Zarifa Ghafari, the mayor of Maidan Shar, the capital of the central province, said: “I’ll just sit here and wait for them to come. No one can help me or my family, so I’ll sit here with my family and husband. They will find Go and kill someone like me. I can’t leave my family, let alone where I can go?”
My dear homeland,
I know you are suffering and in pain ????
I know it is hard for you because strangers burn you and seek your destruction ????
But your real children who are looking to build you are very hard but with full courage trying to pull you out of these bad days ???? pic.twitter.com/paQh0Nry4f— Zarifa Ghafari (@Zarifa_Ghafari) August 14, 2021
Gafari, 27, is Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor and the first woman to head into the office of the Mayor of Macdansha in Wardak Province.
According to the New York Times, Xia Jiafari was appointed by President Ashraf Ghani in 2018. According to reports, although there have been female governors and mayors in Afghanistan before, she is one of the very few women who hold public office in the rather conservative Mactan Shah.
For many years, Gafari has defended the rights of women in Afghanistan, hosted his own radio program, and established a non-governmental organization focusing on helping women’s economic independence. Her leadership has been repeatedly resisted in relatively conservative provinces, she has received several death threats, and has survived attacks on her several times.
In November 2020, her father, Abdul Wasi Ghafari (Abdul Wasi Ghafari) was assassinated in Kabul. His father was a colonel in the army at the time. Ghafari believed that the death of her father was the work of the Taliban.
The New York Times pointed out that when she was interviewed, she said, “They didn’t want me to be in Mactan Shah, so they killed my father. My heart is broken and I don’t know who else to rely on. But even if they come again Catch me and I will not shrink back. I am no longer afraid of death.”
The report pointed out that with the rise of the Taliban, Gafari was assigned to work in the relatively safe Ministry of Defense in Kabul, responsible for the welfare of soldiers and civilians injured by terrorist attacks.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid promised on August 15 that the lives of women and opponents will be protected.
Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala (Malala Yousafzai) said on August 17 that she was very worried about the situation in Afghanistan, especially the safety of women and girls, and called on global leaders to take urgent action.
Agence France-Presse reported that Malala said that US President Biden “has a lot to do” and must “act boldly” to protect the Afghan people; she said she has tried to contact several international leaders.
According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, in 2014, the 17-year-old Malala was awarded the Peace Prize for “struggling for oppressed children and young people and fighting for the right to education for all children”.
In an interview with the BBC program “Newsnight”, Malala, 24, said: “This is indeed an urgent humanitarian crisis. We must provide assistance and support. And I am very worried about the current situation in Afghanistan. , Especially the safety of local women and girls.”
She said that she had contacted several human rights activists in Afghanistan, including feminist advocates. Human rights defenders expressed concern and wondered what life will be like in the future.
She said she had written to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, requesting the admission of Afghan refugees and ensuring that all refugee children “have access to education, safety and protection, so that they will not lose their future”.
Malala described her life under the rule of the Pakistani Taliban (Pakistani Taliban) under the pen name of the BBC at the age of 11, and also advocated girls’ right to education. In 2012, Malala was shot by Taliban on a school bus and was sent to the UK for treatment and settled there. She graduated from Oxford University in 2020 with a degree in philosophy, political science and economics.
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