 Threats to girls’ education.
The Taliban’s antipathy to the education of women in Afganistan has long been documented, but now it’s been reported that religious extremists across the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan – the so-called local Taliban – are threatening violence in some areas, unless parents hold their girls back from school.
Maryam Bibi, one of the founders of Khwendo Kor (Sister's Home), an NGO whose aim is to improve the literacy rate among girls, and Antonia Paradela, spokesperson for Unicef in Pakistan join Jenni to discuss the scale of the problem. |
