Zahra Joya, 28 years old, despite working on a website where they tell stories about Afghan women, has found that she was the only woman in a newsroom. "It was a lonely environment, dominated by men who made the decisions about what news was important and what wasn't," she says. The news is decided by men, society presents itself as if women have power, but it is not so.
If a girl or woman is raped, there will never be talk of what the lives of those victims are like. The first to be persecuted are them, the journalists. We cannot look the other way, the fundamentalists deny them the right to laugh in public, after 20 years they have achieved progress in rights and freedoms, and now the Taliban, with their establishment of a radical and caveman regime, return them to an absurd patriarchy. We cannot stand idly by, it's called human rights.
As a woman, I cannot bear this humanitarian chaos, and this making women disappear and mutilating them. Girls who will not go to school and who will be raped and forced to marry a man 30 years older than them. They will not only cover them with a burka, but they will cover their lives.
I cannot comprehend or understand this mass murder. It is a global responsibility and we cannot close our eyes; we who live with comforts, that our girls have a future with respect before society, that we worry about not having a mobile charger or if the anti-wrinkle cream is the best, now we cannot leave them, they need us. If they erase them, they erase us all.
I am desolate and frustrated because I do not understand this massacre. Parents who will not even be able to defend their daughters because they will be killed. I can't even imagine that tomorrow they won't let me do my job, that they lock me up at home; that I don't even show my ankles to the air and if I hear something funny; make the effort not to laugh, that some crazy people take my girl; and destroy her life.
We all have to support them and shout loudly so that they become people and women again.
They achieved equality in 1964, and in 1990 the Taliban stole it from them when the civil war broke out. They still doubt where and how women will go to work.
They destroy fences where women are advertised, it is about them not being there anymore.
Humbly, I make an appeal to all of you, let's think that in each of them, we are reflected and we cannot abandon them. What is the point of being born? If before babbling they cover my mouth.