Today at Ms. | September 22, 2021


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Taliban Ban Girls From Returning to Secondary School: “Like Burying Them Alive” [[link removed]]

BY MAKHFI AZIZI | Students in secondary schools in Afghanistan are aged between 13 and 18. Under the former government, boys and girls were already segregated by gender, studying on separate campuses or during different times of the day. The announcement that only boys would be allowed to return to school has stirred up more fears among the Afghan people, who are worried this is just another measure to curb women’s rights, freedom and access to education and opportunities.
“Banning girls from attending school is like burying them alive. Don’t let this nightmare turn into reality,” Aryan Aroon, an activist and writer from Afghanistan who left the country before the Taliban takeover, told the Washington Post.

The Biden Administration’s Expulsion of Haitians Is Unconscionable—and a Missed Opportunity [[link removed]]
BY RÉGINE JEAN-CHARLES | This week, as it did several months ago, the Biden administration again betrayed the trust of the Haitian community that helped to elect it. The most recent deception came in the form of mass expulsion of Haitian migrants, many of whom have not lived in Haiti for years.
What will it take for the U.S. government to have a new approach to Haiti?

Corporate Backlash Builds Against Texas’s Abortion Ban: “Policies That Restrict Reproductive Health Are Bad for Business” [[link removed]]
BY ROXY SZAL | A potential brain drain from Texas is looming as a result of the state’s unprecedented six-week abortion ban: Two-thirds of college-educated respondents said Senate Bill 8 would discourage them from working in the state, a recent poll conducted by PerryUndem warns. Now, three weeks after the law took effect, a coordinated corporate backlash is finally beginning to take shape.
On Tuesday, over 50 companies signed a letter titled “Don’t Ban Equality,” which argues that abortion restrictions are bad for business—marking the largest outcry yet from the business sector against the controversial bill.


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