{"id":35690,"date":"2021-08-22T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/afghanistan-taliban-women-rights-progress"},"modified":"2021-08-22T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T05:30:26","slug":"progress-is-on-the-line-former-afghan-diplomat-warns-of-womens-fate-under-taliban-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35690","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Progress is on the line\u2019: former Afghan diplomat warns of women\u2019s fate under Taliban rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades of gains in rights and liberties for the women of Afghanistan hang by a thread as many go into hiding<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/21\/biden-trump-america-first-progressive\">America first, again: Is Biden echoing Trump on Afghanistan?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afghanembassy.us\/\">embassy of Afghanistan<\/a> occupies a handsome redbrick mansion in a serene and tree-lined Washington neighbourhood, deserted apart from dog-walkers and joggers, as distant from the gunfire and panic of Kabul as could be imagined.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/trapped-in-hell-kabul-airport-chaos-casts-doubt-on-us-promise-of-safe-evacuation\">\u2018Trapped in hell\u2019: Kabul airport chaos casts doubt on US promise of safe evacuation<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/afghanistan-taliban-women-rights-progress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades of gains in rights and liberties for the women of Afghanistan hang by a thread as many go into hidingAmerica first, again: Is Biden echoing Trump on Afghanistan?The embassy of Afghanistan occupies a handsome redbrick mansion in a serene and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"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":[46,1854,61,47,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-women","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\/35690","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35717,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35690\/revisions\/35717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}