The Taliban’s war on Afghanistan's women - The Global Jigsaw podcast, BBC World Service

The groups’ return to power in Afghanistan has forced the erasure of women from public life.

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There’s a UN-led campaign to recognise it as “gender apartheid”, but the international community is divided and lacking leverage.

Three years after the group took the capital Kabul, our experts explain what life is like for half of the population and why women have become a proxy for the nation’s image of itself.

00:00 Introduction
07:52 Who are the Taliban?
13:28 Women’s rights in Afghanistan
21:06 Foreign intervention
23:16 Media restrictions and press freedom
28:51 Acts of resistance by women
30:25 International recognition
32:19 Ethnic and regional divisions
33:29 Conclusion

Broadcast on 8 August 2024

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