A Year After The Taliban Took Power, Angelina Jolie Continues To Support Afghan Women
The 47-year-old Academy Award winner wrote an opinion piece for TIME on the atrocities. Afghan women continue to endure under tyrannical rule one year after the withdrawal of American forces and the Taliban's control of the nation.
She described seeing a teenage immigrant in Rome who, before the Afghan government was toppled, was "months from certifying as a physician" and whose sisters had also been denied an education.
They, along with an additional 14 million Afghan women and girls, "forfeited their right to attend high school or university, their ability to work, and their movement freedom overnight," Jolie stated.
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