诺贝尔和平奖得主莫拉拉为阿富汗姐妹担心

　　在过去的二十年里，数百万阿富汗妇女和女孩接受了教育。现在，她们的未来正接近消失，因为塔利班又回来执政了。20年前塔利班失去政权之前，他们禁止几乎所有女孩和妇女上学，并对不服从他们的人施以严厉惩罚。像许多妇女一样，我为我的阿富汗姐妹们感到担忧。
　　In the last two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now their future is dangerously close to going away. The Taliban — who until losing power 20 years ago banned nearly all girls and women from attending school and gave harsh punishment to those who did not obey them — are back in control. Like many women, I fear for my Afghan sisters.
　　我不禁想起了我的童年。2007年，塔利班占领了我在巴基斯坦斯瓦特山谷的家乡，此后不久，他们就禁止女孩接受教育。我把书藏在又长又厚的披肩下，恐惧地走向学校。五年后，当我15岁的时候，塔利班试图杀死我，因为我说我有上学的权利。
　　I cannot help but think of my own childhood. When the Taliban took over my hometown in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in 2007 and shortly thereafter banned girls from getting education, I hid my books under my long, hefty shawl and walked to school in fear. Five years later, when I was 15, the Taliban tried to kill me for speaking out about my right to go to school.
　　阿富汗的女孩和年轻妇女又回到了我曾经的经历——一想到她们可能再也不能看到教室或拿起一本书，她们就感到绝望。一些塔利班成员表示，他们不会拒绝妇女和女孩接受教育或工作的权利。但是考虑到塔利班暴力镇压妇女权利的历史，阿富汗妇女的恐惧是真实的。我们已经听到女学生被大学拒之门外，女员工被办公室拒之门外的报道。
　　Afghan girls and young women are once again where I have been — in despair over the thought that they might never be allowed to see a classroom or hold a book again. Some members of the Taliban say they will not deny women and girl’s education or the right to work. But given the Taliban’s history of violently suppressing women’s rights, Afghan women’s fears are real. Already, we are hearing reports of female students being turned away from their universities, female workers from their offices.