in total 29 prohibitions that taliban What was imposed on Afghan women during his first term in the 1990s and has now recovered, 20 years later, after his most recent return to power. August 15, 2021. These bans, ranging from not being able to go to school to not being able to talk to a man who is not a family member, are also reflected in the ’29 looks’ virtual art exhibition, which will physically open in November. in Segovia.
Exhibition managed and coordinated from the F8 Tours / F8 Estudio studio in Tudela, real witnesses of refugees Fleeing from Afghanistan as the former Deputy Speaker of the Assembly of Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi, and presenter of Afghanistan’s state television news, Hatice Emin. Both were pioneers in exercising recently won rights such as participation in political life or working outside the home, and have become two recognized faces among the Afghan population. Delivered to Amin. marriage of convenience when I was very young and spent the first years of his marriage in seclusion and dedicated exclusively to housework. Years later, he decided to break these chains and started his career. journalism When she was chosen as the news face on Afghan state television. “My husband didn’t like it, but he couldn’t have banned it,” she explains to this newspaper. “I got the job I missed so much with hard work,” he continues.
“arrival taliban It was a heavy blow for me. From one day to the next, my boss told me that women were not allowed to work and asked me to go home,” she explains to this newspaper. She went from the evacuation plane to Torrejón de Ardoz and later moved to Salamanca, where she is currently studying in her final year of her degree. Even so, her flight is bittersweet. continues to have a taste. betrayed by her husbandHe decided to stay in Afghanistan at the last moment to prevent Hatice from bringing her three children to Spain. “As long as the Taliban remains in power, women have a very dark future ahead of them“He says he’s moved.
“The war in Ukraine extinguished the media focus on Afghanistan very quickly,” the Spanish journalist summarizes. Antonio Pampliega in a phone call. The eight photos signed by the war correspondent were taken during his last two trips to the Asian country between 2017 and 2018. Collected in an adjoining room with artistic representations of prohibitions, they are dealt with along with other important issues of Afghan society. real images of violence against women, forced marriage or female suicide.
to be forgotten
“Afghanistan is the worst country to be a woman and it will be worse if the world forgets”, ditch. “The Taliban gradually adopted the measures and prohibitions unnoticed. strategy based on defocusing have freedom of movement,” explains Pampliega. Although he acknowledges that the arrival of the Taliban has greatly worsened the situation of half the population, Pampliega points out that “it was an illusion to believe that women were free before the Taliban.”
Her photographs capture situations a woman with rights cannot live through. Rural Afghan women lagged behind while cities took small steps to get the youth. Rights they were previously deprived of. “What these women went through is unforgettable,” she says. Begonia Osambela Together with his partner Carlos Forcada, who is also a photographer, the photographer has joined this newspaper, organizing and coordinating the work of more than 70 professionals, including celebrities. photographers, writers and journalists To highlight the irrationality of Taliban power in Afghanistan from an artistic point of view.
These 29 bans are suffocating more and more Afghan women, whose lives have become a torch. hell. In this situation, the three main problems that the exhibition echoed, such as suicide, sexist violence and the widespread prevalence of forced marriages, aggravated. “Comfortable marriages are a cultural thing in Afghanistan, but the economic crisis in the country is forcing many families to get married. sell your little girls to survive,” explains Pampliega. After that, the girls’ expressions are kept to a minimum and in many cases they commit suicide to leave all the pain and abuse behind.