UK Special Envoy Meets Afghan Women Leaders in London

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Richard Lindsay, the United Kingdom’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, has announced that he, along with Harriet Harman, the UK’s Special Envoy for Women and Girls, met with a number of Afghan women leaders and activists in London.

Lindsay wrote in a post on the social media platform X on Friday (October 10) that the discussions were “productive and important,” describing the perspectives of Afghan women leaders as “powerful and urgent.”

According to him, the meeting focused on ways to support the rights, leadership, and participation of Afghan women.

This meeting comes as Afghan women continue to face widespread repression and discrimination under Taliban rule, being deprived of education, employment, and social participation. Various countries, including the United Kingdom, have repeatedly called for the restoration of Afghan women’s fundamental rights, but after four years of Taliban rule, those calls remain unanswered.