Women marched in the streets and shouted “Bread, work and freedom”. Activist Zholia Parsi said some of the women were captured by the Taliban. “This protest was against the Taliban’s one year in power, because they have no agenda for governance, girls’ schools are still closed, women are being fired from their jobs for no reason, poverty is increasing, so for all the good reasons. they protested.” Women protest Saturday in Kabul ahead of the first anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power on August 15, 2021. (Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images) The protest came just two days before the Taliban’s first anniversary in power since the withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan last year. The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on August 15, 2021, returned the hardline movement to power in Afghanistan nearly 20 years after the group was ousted by the US invasion following the September 11, 2001 attacks. With the group’s return to power, girls are not allowed to study above the sixth grade and many women in government positions have not been allowed to work.
