
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


What have almost two decades of American intervention in Afghanistan achieved? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Kimberley Motley - an American lawyer who went to Kabul in a training capacity and stayed to become a respected litigator fighting for the rights of the abused and the powerless. The death toll in the Afghan conflict far outstrips the losses in Syria and Yemen. But the grim statistics tell only a part of Afghanistan’s story. Does her experience give grounds for hope or despair?
By BBC World Service4.4
326326 ratings
What have almost two decades of American intervention in Afghanistan achieved? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Kimberley Motley - an American lawyer who went to Kabul in a training capacity and stayed to become a respected litigator fighting for the rights of the abused and the powerless. The death toll in the Afghan conflict far outstrips the losses in Syria and Yemen. But the grim statistics tell only a part of Afghanistan’s story. Does her experience give grounds for hope or despair?

7,702 Listeners

4,120 Listeners

375 Listeners

519 Listeners

1,065 Listeners

293 Listeners

1,793 Listeners

961 Listeners

732 Listeners

51 Listeners

843 Listeners

68 Listeners

990 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

6 Listeners

13 Listeners

4 Listeners

1 Listeners

37 Listeners

0 Listeners

146 Listeners

387 Listeners

3 Listeners