Amanda Gorman calls on Biden to support Afghan women and girls
Source: Axios
Prominent women's rights advocates, including poet laureate Amanda Gorman, are calling on the Biden administration to protect and support Afghan women and girls and "honor its commitment to gender equity."
Why it matters: The activists including the actors Connie Britton and Charlize Theron, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, and Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg are the latest advocates to try to increase pressure on President Biden to do more for Afghans who could face persecution from the Taliban.
We join a growing chorus of global leaders and advocates in raising up the voices of Afghan womens rights activists who are under imminent threat, the activists write in an open letter to the White House.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/amanda-gorman-biden-afghan-women-fed5b18e-7867-413a-b909-0aeeadf6b258.html
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)And how is he suppose to do that?
PSPS
(13,603 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Maybe drop a nuke inside it ?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)I would be very surprised if there is not a team of people working on the specific issue of evacuating women and girls who qualify for evacuation.
But the truth is that the rest of the world will have little to no power to influence the quality of life for women and girls who remain in Afghanistan once the withdrawal is complete.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Don't you have a few other things you need to be working on.
Scrivener7
(50,956 posts)empty seats."
SMDH.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)I never hear Republicans saying anything about how Saudi Arabia treats women and girls, which is not much different from Afghanistan.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)Under the Taliban women cannot leave the house without a husband, brother or father. If they don't have one ...too bad. They can't work. No male to support them, they can starve. Need to see a doctor? Sorry,. Not unless your father or husband is a doctor. And there is much more. Education...no. A job....no. etc. Etc.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...which does not even address current cultural norms, so once again what is the big difference?
https://www.theweek.co.uk/60339/things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabia
In July 2017, a prominent cleric called for even more modesty, urging the nations daughters to avoid any abaya that has any decorations No embellishment, no slits, no openings.
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Women are required to limit the amount of time spent with men to whom they are not related. The majority of public buildings, including offices, banks and universities, have separate entrances for the different sexes, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Public transportation, parks, beaches and amusement parks are also segregated in most parts of the country. However, the government announced at the end of 2019 that restaurants are no longer required to have separate entrances segregated by sex.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)The Taliban are the more extreme and brutal version of the Saudis. Both are bad....one is even more bad.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)I don't know where you get this idea that Saudi Arabia somehow a much more moderate version of the Taliban? I get it that Saudia Arabia is rich, but I think that makes their oppression and extremism worse, rather than better, because you cannot even attribute it to lack of education or rule of law.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/3/saudi-arabia-ramped-up-executions-in-first-half-of-2021-amnesty
The rights group said on Tuesday that the kingdom executed at least 40 people between January and July 2021 more than during the whole of last year.
Although Saudi Arabia executed a record 185 people in 2019, the state-backed Human Rights Commission said in January that the kingdom had reduced the number of executions by 85 percent in 2020 compared with the previous year, putting the number for 2020 at 27.
Amnesty said executions had resumed immediately after Saudi Arabia handed over the presidency of the Group of 20 rich nations to Italy, with nine people executed in December 2020 alone.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)It is much worse then you seem to think it is.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Saudi women drivers
Saudi women working
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)The Afghan men are not fighting the Taliban and the Taliban view women as less then human.
JohnSJ
(92,233 posts)reserves.
Possibly that might be used as a negotiating tool, but the logistics to insure that women's rights were protected would make this a very complicated process
Warpy
(111,277 posts)If there is a civil war, maybe he can help then. For now, trying to squeeze them with sanctions isn't going to work.
If the Taliban are up to their old tricks, and they were wildly corrupt as well as brutal to women, I have a feeling the Afghan forces, who outnumber them by 4 to 1, will rise up against them.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Amanda Gorman, we lead by example, not by imposing our values on a medieval culture led by Mullahs and tribal leaders.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Im sure that never occurred to anyone.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)we can't protect Americans in our own country.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)There was a video I watched some time ago that showed Afghans skateboarding and that they were worried about the Taliban.
littlemissmartypants
(22,695 posts)between the women and the threats and if there's no way to do that, maybe stay in their lane. It may not be a popular opinion but it's mine.
tavernier
(12,393 posts)and sons to protect their women and female children. Joe is not Superman.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)you can just snap your fingers and IT WILL HAPPEN.