 My name is Fatima Ghailani. I'm from Afghanistan. I was the former president of the Afghan Red Cross in society. The work of peace and being in touch with this institute is not new for me. For the last 46 years that Afghanistan has been in turmoil, on and off I had my relationship and my talk, exchanging views and all that. It is a very unfortunate situation. It is a very confusing situation. And it is absolutely not acceptable by the people of Afghanistan. It is not acceptable and it is not acceptable to the world. And especially a country which is coming under the name of Islam. It's a contradiction to Islam. Because there is an open and very clear verse in Quran. Actually Quran started with that verse which means read. Read. Learn the art of writing. The art of writing. This is an order. This is an open order from God. And it cannot be reversed. So in my opinion, and in the opinion of many people in Afghanistan, men and women, this is what is happening today in Afghanistan is a contradiction to that. But the government hasn't said that it is forbidden. They have said it has suspended. But even the suspension, it is more than three years. There has to be a way to reopen the door for women. One thing is extremely important that not just the US, the whole world has a responsibility towards Afghanistan. Not just regarding women in Afghanistan. Regarding the poverty, regarding restart the life for the people of Afghanistan from agriculture to education and all that. Because Afghanistan was caught and Afghanistan was a country which was sacrificed and very badly sacrificed during the Cold War and then carried on. So this is the responsibility of the whole world to rebuild Afghanistan. Pressure has to come from the people of Afghanistan. This is the demand of people of Afghanistan. I want to make it very clear to the world and also inside Afghanistan that this is not a Western demand. This is a demand of the Afghan people. This is the right of Afghan women. Not only this is the right of Afghan women. As I said earlier, it is an order from God. If we are Muslim, this is an order from God. This is our responsibility. Inside Afghanistan, if we have knowledge of my own religion, you cannot tell me a tradition or something which is either not Islamic or sometimes even it is against Islam. And sugar coated with Islam and tell me and this is Islam. So I think it is important that we should know about our religion and we should know how to defend ourselves. We women especially, how to defend ourselves with our religion that there are things that are not supposed to be. And the biggest example of it is the inheritance of women because it is against the tradition in our region, not just in Afghanistan in our region, that it is shameful for a woman to ask for their inheritance. I have never seen any government, any country that they put it in laws and regulations but to effectively go and practically change that. I haven't seen it and I think that the time has come that we should wake up and we do that.