{"id":58388,"date":"2023-09-15T02:10:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/14\/we-have-an-obligation-to-afghan-women-and-girls"},"modified":"2023-09-15T02:10:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:10:51","slug":"we-have-an-obligation-to-afghan-women-and-girls-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58388","title":{"rendered":"We have an obligation to Afghan women and girls | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon Diggins<\/strong>, a former defence attach\u00e9 to Kabul, suggests the UK should amend its Afghan civilian resettlement scheme<\/p>\n<p>Zahra Joya\u2019s moving piece reminds us that our interventions in Afghanistan created an expectation, and obligation, to support those who share our values (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/commentisfree\/2023\/sep\/06\/women-in-afghanistan-fighting-an-unequal-war-against-taliban-we-need-support\">Women in Afghanistan are fighting an unequal war. We need your support, 6 September<\/a>). It is an obligation we have often shirked, from the scandal of the way we treated our interpreters and local staff to our abandonment of the Afghan regime in 2021; nowhere is this more stark though in the way that Afghan women and girls have been betrayed.<\/p>\n<p>Given that no one sensible is going to launch a military intervention to overthrow the regime, the issue is: what can be done?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/14\/we-have-an-obligation-to-afghan-women-and-girls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Diggins, a former defence attach\u00e9 to Kabul, suggests the UK should amend its Afghan civilian resettlement schemeZahra Joya\u2019s moving piece reminds us that our interventions in Afghanistan created an expectation, and obligation, to support those wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[46,79,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/58388","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58389,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58388\/revisions\/58389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}