In 2021, the Taliban seized Kabul, and the Afghan government collapsed. What has happened to women and girls since, and has the international community failed them?
Dr Habiba Sarabi, Afghanistan's former Women's Affairs Minister, argues the West isn’t demanding anything meaningful from the Taliban in exchange for cooperation and humanitarian aid.
Rina Amiri, who served as US Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls and Human Rights under President Biden, argues the world should apply the precedent of apartheid South Africa to the Taliban leadership, saying the total exclusion of women from public life is an anomaly even within the Islamic world.
