The Grazia columnist and Women's Equality Party founding leader explains why it's so important we focus on women and children in Afghanistan
Securing women’s equality was at the heart of the US-led intervention into Afghanistan, we were told. As the UK announced its participation, journalists were briefed on the important human rights and civic work of the mission. Success would mean the freedom of women and girls.. The UK Parliament has broken off its summer holiday to debate what to do. But with every hour that passes, it becomes more difficult to find the most vulnerable in Afghanistan, and more difficult to get them out.
The female lawyers, activists and journalists who moved and participated more freely in society over the last two decades are top targets for the Islamist military organisation. Universities and schools where women were educated have been evacuated and their doors closed. Beauty parlours are boarded up. Burqa shops have re-opened, their prices sky-high for the all-enveloping robe a generation of women were reassured they would not be forced to wear.
'The challenge is to mobilise people here to understand that in a month we won’t be able to find these people or reach them.” The UK is in a good position as chair of the G7 and a key NATO ally to lead an ambitious international refugee plan with support from powerful allies. For years it has defended its relationship with Saudi Arabia to feminists – now is the time to show the worth of that work. Pakistan too is a friend, whose embassies in the region can help women and girls. There is currently very little to show for eighteen months’ planning time the US-led coalition had for its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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