Education International

ATROAfghan Teachers' Rights Observatory

I was happy when I was teaching the upper classes, but I have now been at home for the past two years.

I am fortunate because when I was teaching, my salary has always been paid on time, but the working conditions were not good.

I firmly believe that girls should have the right to education and female teachers should be allowed to teach boys.

Before the Taliban came to power, I was teaching in a school. Two months after they came to power, I could no longer teach.

We do not have a good social and educational life: my daughters are at home, and I am not allowed to teach. We are deprived of our legal rights.

Where the Taliban ruled, there were no schools at all, and if there were, only boys were allowed to go to school and girls were deprived.