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janterry

(4,429 posts) Tue Aug 17, 2021, 08:14 AM Aug 2021

Afghanistan's All-Girls Robotics Team Desperate to Escape Country as Taliban Takes Control

https://gizmodo.com/afghanistans-all-girls-robotics-team-desperate-to-escap-1847492243

Afghanistan’s all-girls robotics team, which made headlines in recent years for their inventions, is desperately trying to escape the country after the Taliban took control of the capital city of Kabul over the weekend, according to a report from Canada’s CBC News.

“They’re worried about what tomorrow brings. They want to continue to be educated. They want to continue to be the future of Afghanistan. But it’s an extremely tenuous and dangerous situation for them,” human rights lawyer Kimberley Motley told CBC on Sunday.

Motley explained that Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had been an “amazing supporter” of the girls, and met with them in 2018. Motley would like Canada to get the girls out of Afghanistan safely and presumably give them refugee status, something the country has promised 20,000 other vulnerable Afghans.