US special envoy to Afghanistan denounces the treatment of girls and women

Ever since the Taliban seized power in August of 2021, women and girls in Afghanistan have faced a harsher new reality every day. Rina Amiri, the US special envoy for Afghan women, girls and human rights talks, with The World’s Marco Werman about what sort of leverage the US government retains to pressure the Taliban on behalf of women.

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