{"id":35599,"date":"2021-08-21T06:10:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T21:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/20\/afghanistan-women-biden-amanda-gorman-kate-winslet-open-letter"},"modified":"2021-08-21T06:10:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T21:10:50","slug":"amanda-gorman-and-kate-winslet-join-advocates-urging-biden-to-protect-afghan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35599","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Gorman and Kate Winslet join advocates urging Biden to protect Afghan women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheryl Sandberg, Charlize Theron and Diane von Furstenburg among dozens who signed open letter<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of women\u2019s rights advocates and high-profile figures, including the poet Amanda Gorman, are calling on the Biden administration to protect and support Afghan women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>In an open <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2021\/08\/20\/2284102\/25550\/en\/Leading-Advocates-for-Women-Call-on-Biden-Administration-Do-Not-Abandon-Afghan-Women-and-Girls.html\">letter<\/a> titled \u201cDo Not Abandon Afghan Women and Girls\u201d, Gorman, alongside the Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, actors Charlize Theron and Kate Winslet, and others urged the administration to honor its commitment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/20\/afghanistan-women-biden-amanda-gorman-kate-winslet-open-letter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheryl Sandberg, Charlize Theron and Diane von Furstenburg among dozens who signed open letterDozens of women\u2019s rights advocates and high-profile figures, including the poet Amanda Gorman, are calling on the Biden administration to protect and support &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2303,1854,646,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-amanda-gorman","category-biden-administration","category-gender","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35630,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions\/35630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}