Islamabad — As the world marks International Women's Day on Wednesday, the women of Afghanistan have little to celebrate.
The Taliban regime has methodically stripped them of their basic rights since reclaiming power over the country in the summer of 2021.
"Today, all of the past 20 years of progress have been erased, and the Taliban have excluded Afghan women from all parts of society," she lamented.
Many Afghan women feel the international community has neglected them since the Taliban came back to power.
"Had the world taken a stronger stance against the Taliban, they wouldn't have dared to exclude women from public life," she said.
Afghan women attend a protest against their country's Taliban rulers, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on International Women's Day, March 8, 2023.
"I am tired of the ineffective slogans of the international community," she said, calling on the world to "act responsibly" and stop "neglecting of its duty" to Afghan women. »