Shabnan: We must not stay silent, whether it's the talaban or not. It is our responsibility to call it out and to insure that girls have access to basic education in afghanistan. Every every that i've been hearing so far when it comes to a girl's education has only come from women fromAfghanistan. Where are the global feminist voices? How are we talking about feminism when we ignore a huge a nation like afghanistan? Er? And that shouldn't be its. The u.N. Could oversee or set up specifically based a focusing on afghanistan,. Shabnan says.
One year ago the United States decided to withdraw from Afghanistan after two decades in the country. The Taliban, a militant Islamist group that ran most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, swept to power without much resistance from the Afghan army and captured Kabul on August 15 2021. The debacle left Western governments humiliated and ordinary Afghans afraid. What responsibility do countries like Britain and the United States have for the current crisis? To discuss these issues our host the journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana is joined by Shabnam Nasimi, Policy Advisor to the U.K Home Office, BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, and Paul Mason, the journalist, writer and film-maker.
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