Afghan Women On What's At Stake For Women In Afghanistan

The Taliban, now in control of the country of Afghanistan, has promised that women will be treated well under its new government.

Advocates working on the ground say those promises are nothing more than a publicity stunt. They point to the women's rights violations under the Taliban, not just when the group was last in power, but also in the past year.

Women living in the Afghan provinces where the Taliban had already taken control have been the victims of targeted beatings and killings.

Though women are largely off the streets, they've been leading protests against the new government, unwilling to sacrifice the massive gains in rights they've earned themselves in the past two decades.

What's at stake for the girls and women of Afghanistan? And what can be done to protect women's rights moving forward?

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