text: FILE - in this Saturday, March 6, 2021, Sima Samar, a prominent activist and physician who has been fighting for womens rights in Afghanistan for the past 40 years, gives an interview at her house in Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan education ministry memo banning girls, 12 years old and older, from singing at public school functions, which the education ministry tells The Associated Press was a mistake, is causing a social media stir. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File