{"id":2120,"date":"2025-08-15T17:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2025-08-15T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:17:03","slug":"ufv-shows-support-for-women-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2025\/08\/15\/ufv-shows-support-for-women-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV shows support for women in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been four years since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan and began imposing a regime of gender apartheid. These institutionalized and widespread gender-based discriminatory systems are having dire consequences for all Afghans, particularly for women and girls who are deprived of their fundamental rights, from education to free movement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2121\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC_3822-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the gathered crowd of approximately 50 people standing in a line outdoors on UFV's Abbotsford campus. They are holding signs in support of women in Afghanistan.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC_3822-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC_3822-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC_3822-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC_3822.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the third year, students, faculty, and staff at UFV gathered to stand in solidarity with women in Afghanstan. The event \u2014 featuring a speech from activist Sahar Maqsoodi and co-organized by CHASI, UFV\u2019s Faculty and Staff Association, and Sustainable UFV \u2014 aimed to maintain awareness of these systemic human rights abuses and show visible support for the women of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>You can view Sahar Maqsoodi&#8217;s speech in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87NptbE1VhU?si=vd-VfNi8CeOPdUti\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CHASI has been vocally supporting women in Afghanistan over these past four years. To learn more about our past events and coverage, please see these past blog posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2021\/08\/17\/afghanistan\/\">CHASI calls on the international community to support Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2023\/08\/09\/examining-two-years-of-taliban-rule-in-afghanistan\/\">Examining two years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2023\/08\/18\/ufv-walk-out-in-support-of-afghan-women\/\">UFV Walk-out in support of Afghan women (2023)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2023\/08\/21\/chasicast-10\/\">CHASIcast: Fatema D. Ahmadi on women\u2019s rights in Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2024\/08\/21\/ufv-gathers-in-solidarity-with-afghan-women\/\">UFV gathers in solidarity with Afghan women (2024)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been four years since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan and began imposing a regime of gender apartheid. These institutionalized and widespread gender-based discriminatory systems are having dire consequences for all Afghans, particularly for women and girls who are deprived of their fundamental rights, from education to free movement. For the third year, students, &#8230; <a title=\"UFV shows support for women in Afghanistan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2025\/08\/15\/ufv-shows-support-for-women-in-afghanistan\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":2121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151,226,227],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-chelsea-klassen","tag-sahar-maqsoodi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}