Many Afghan women feel the international community has neglected them since the Taliban came back to power.
since reclaiming power over the country in the summer of 2021. Forced from most workplaces and higher education, many women with the means to do so have left their country, and thousands now live as refugees in neighboring Pakistan.
Afghan journalist and television presenter Nafeesa Malali, seen during on the air in her native country before she fled across the border to Pakistan as a refugee following the Taliban's return to power in 2021.Malali said she feels like she's trapped in a cage. The joy of previous women's days in her native country, during the U.S.-led war that forced the Taliban from power for two decades, are a distant memory.
"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.
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