The condition of women in Afghanistan seems to be worsening by the day. On comparing the status of women in the nation today with back in the 90s, we only ended up finding more disturbing insights into the lives of girls and women in Afghanistan.
Speaking on the matter of women's status in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, said Taliban's targeting of women and girls is crime against humanity.
back and look at all of this. the time has expired. thank you. senator shaheen. thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you secretary blinken for appearing for the committee today. i appreciate and share the frustration of my colleagues over the challenges with the evacuation, over the situation of special immigrant visa applicants and the taliban treatment of women and girls and other mine oorities and i also agree that assessment and given by several others that where we were when we got that that evacuation was because of the failure of both democratic and republican administrations. and i want to know where that outrage was when year after year for ten years starting with senator mccain, i and others in the senate tried to get more special immigrant visa applicants through the process so that they could leave afghanistan, leave the threat and come to the united states.
0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we ve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country. but instead we went into iraq, which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities and we never finished afghanistan. a mistake made by the bush administration. and we ve already talked about the trump administration and setting a deadline and releasing prisoners and moving forward with the reduction of troops. when there
Social media giant Twitter has marked as “manipulated media” the image in which three Muslim women – in burqa and chained, are seen behind a man wrongly attributed walking in Afghanistan streets.