Instead of Politicizing Afghanistan, Stand Up for Women and Girls
In its latest move to repress half of the country’s population, the Taliban mandated that Afghan women can no longer work in beauty salons or for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The U.N. condemned the Taliban for forcing the international organization to make an “appalling choice” between continuing its operations without employing Afghan women, which would violate the U.N. Charter, or withdrawing from the country, which would deepen the humanitarian crisis. Lisa Curtis reasons in her article for the Center for a New American Society that the worse the Taliban treats women and girls, the greater the likelihood that Afghanistan again becomes a locus of extremist ideologies and terrorism. Moreover, high-level U.S. engagement with Taliban leaders under present circumstances serves to strengthen the Taliban’s narrative that it is a legitimate power.
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