Every year on the DayOfTheGirl, we highlight the rights and accomplishments of girls globally—but what we have learned over our decades of work on inclusive humanitarian response is that our attention must last beyond this day.
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan left behind millions of who now face uncertain—but assuredly worse—futures under Taliban rule. Afghanistan is engulfed in an urgent humanitarian crisis affecting the country as a whole, and women and girls in particular. Now is the time for the Biden administration to show the History has demonstrated that girls are easy for political leaders to dismiss. The Taliban of the 1990s exercisedover most aspects of women’s lives.
Today’s Taliban is going down that same path—desperate to turn back the clock—despite trying to brand themselves with a new, more tolerant public image. Their assurances that they will uphold women’s rights are absurd against reports of forced marriages,
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