Former prime minister Julia Gillard says failing to listen to local voices to bring about lasting societal change for Afghan women was one of the West’s greatest failures.
The war in Afghanistan lasted two decades and ended in 2021 in humiliation for the American-led coalition, of which Australia was a member, when US President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of troops, effectively allowing the Taliban to walk back into Kabul and retake control.
The Taliban have used the ensuing relative lack of international interest in Afghanistan to reimpose repressive rules on women, forbidding them to attend high school, exercise in gyms or even enter parks, rolling back 20 years of relative freedom.
“But I’m very conscious that many Australians did remarkable things in Afghanistan. Some didn’t come home,” she said.who specialises in reporting on the effects of conflict on women, said one of the great tragedies of modern-day Afghanistan under the Taliban was that Afghan men were not visibly supporting the few women fighting to reclaim their freedoms, compared to“Men came out on the streets in Iran,” she said. “I am very sad to see.
“Women, right now, they are alone, they are protesting, they are fighting but men, they are sitting, they have the right to go to work, education, journey ... they are enjoying life.She said it was frustrating when the international community sent male-dominated delegations to talk to the Taliban or its proxies.Activist Sveto Muhammad Ishoq, a women’s rights advocate and social entrepreneur, said men were not being as supportive as they should be.
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