Submitted to the Senate record
Two students, on the record
Written testimony submitted for the late Senator Graham and Senator Shaheen’s potential hearing on gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
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Unstoppable Dreams
“I walked to school and found its door locked. I could not help but to cry like a bird whose wings are burned into fire.”
Masuda · Testimony to the Senate record
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I had no rights at all
“I had no right to do anything; I wasn’t even supposed to leave the house without a male member of my family. I had no rights at all.”
Humaira · Testimony to the Senate record
“Please do not let what happened to two generations of Afghan women happen again to a third generation.”
Sahar, at the Afghan Women’s Education Reception
From the reception
Three speeches on Capitol Hill
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Sahar
Reception speech
“Two generations of women in my family have had their education taken away simply because we are women.”
“The water was freezing cold, yet I didn’t want to leave because, for the first time in a very long time, I felt something I had almost forgotten existed: freedom.”
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Humaira
Reception speech
03
Masuda
Reception speech
“We gave up our lives back home for this and this desire is so strong that nothing can stop it.”
Photographs
The reception
Congressman Don Bacon with ASRF students at the Afghan Women’s Education reception.
Zahra presents an award to Congressman Don Bacon.
Congressman Bacon arrives at his Afghan Women’s Education reception.
Zahra presents an award to Chief of Staff Mark Dreiling.
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