Angelina Jolie Asks For Help, Shares Emotional Letter From Afghan Woman Amid Education Ban

Angelina Jolie is pleading with Congress to enactment the women of Afghanistan 1 time aft Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers banned women from attending universities. She did truthful by sharing a heartbreaking missive from her “young Afghan friend” and encouraging Congress to enactment those affected. “I received a caller missive contiguous from my young Afghan friend. I’m protecting her sanction and individuality for her and her family’s sake,” the 47-year-old histrion began successful her caption alongside the handwritten letter.

“Today the Taliban sent equipped men to barroom Afghan girls from going to university. It comes connected apical of a implicit prohibition connected precocious schoolhouse acquisition for girls,” the ma of six continued. “Afghanistan is present the lone state successful the satellite that bans acquisition for women.” She past highlighted an excerpt from the pistillate friend, who said, “All the girls privation that they were calved arsenic a lad truthful that they would person the close to get educated”.

The letter, which elaborate however the bid “saddened, depressed and breached the dream” of young Afghan girls, ended with a telephone to action. “The satellite lone watches the quality and talk astir not liking these orders but don’t amusement immoderate absorption oregon action,” it read. “I americium asking you … Please marque our bittersweet voices and requests scope the world.”

Acknowledging that the satellite has supported the oppressed women of Afghanistan from afar, Angelina pleaded with policymakers successful America to instrumentality action. “While supporting Afghan women successful the look of this cruel, oppressive policy, determination is much we tin bash to assistance Afghans who are rebuilding their lives successful America,” she stated successful her caption. “Congress has a accidental this week to walk authorities giving a way to lawful imperishable residence for Afghan families who were evacuated to the US erstwhile the Taliban took power, and to assistance astir 1,500 unaccompanied Afghan children who’ve been separated from their parents oregon superior caregiver. Please inquire your Members of Congress to walk the bipartisan Afghan Adjustment Act.”

Angelina Jolie has pleaded with Congress to enactment the women of Afghanistan by passing the Afghan Adjustment Act, contempt the seemingly slim accidental that it volition beryllium included successful the upcoming year’s spending fund (Photo: John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock)

Introduced successful the Senate by some Democrats and Republicans successful 2022, the Afghan Adjustment Act would let Afghans to beryllium protected to enactment and unrecorded successful the United States arsenic their applications for imperishable ineligible presumption are processed. The enactment would besides make a task unit to make and instrumentality a strategy to assistance relocate Afghan citizens into the United States implicit the adjacent decade. In addition, it would springiness Afghans who served alongside U.S. forces to beryllium fixed a peculiar information arsenic they use for their Special Immigrant Visa.

Following the ban, which was effectual immediately, societal media was flooded with disdain for the order. Furthermore, respective videos of antheral assemblage students successful Afghanistan protesting the order and adjacent walking retired of their exams successful protestation were published.

Plus, galore U.S. leaders and radical of powerfulness speech from Angelina Jolie spoke retired against the constrictive mindset the Taliban hold. “The Taliban cannot expect to beryllium a morganatic subordinate of the planetary assemblage until they respect the rights of each successful Afghanistan,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said connected Tuesday night, per ABC News. “This determination volition travel with consequences for the Taliban.”

Despite the uproar, it was reported connected Monday that The Afghan Adjustment Act did not marque the chopped successful this year’s authorities spending bill.

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