Symbolic imageUN says Taliban have erased Afghan women from public life in five years
On the fifth anniversary of the Taliban takeover, the UN's women's agency said the movement has systematically stripped Afghan women of their rights and erased them from public life.
Breitbart reported the agency's anniversary statement on Friday, five years after the Taliban returned to power in Kabul. A day earlier, the New York Times had reported that decrees restricting women's rights to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, citing experts. Neither account gives figures for how many women are affected, and both are brief summaries.
Rulers in crisis, country at peace
Five years into their hard-line rule, the Taliban find themselves in crisis at home and abroad, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The Economist wrote the same day that under the Taliban, Afghanistan is, for once, peaceful.
The argument over talking to Kabul
The Economist argued in a leader that democracies must still engage with the Taliban, whom it called vile, and asked in a separate piece whether it is time to talk to them.
Other opinions
Breitbart alone ties the anniversary to the US withdrawal, calling it in its headline a 'pullout disaster' of the Biden administration, while the liberal Economist stresses engagement and notes that women are treated horribly in many other places too. No Russian, Chinese or regional outlets are among the day's sources.