Women protest the world's 'silence' over crisis in Afghanistan

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Women activists in Kabul held up signs that read 'why is the world watching us die in silence?' on Tuesday.

Women protest the inaction of the international community in Kabul on TuesdayKABUL - Women activists in Kabul held up signs that read"why is the world watching us die in silence?" on Tuesday, protesting the international community's inaction on the crisis in Afghanistan.

"We are asking the UN secretary-general to support our rights, to education, to work. We are deprived of everything today," Wahida Amiri, one of the organisers for the Spontaneous Movement of Women Activists in Afghanistan, told AFP. But it was moved at the last minute to the entrance of the former"Green Zone", where the buildings of several Western embassies are located, although most of their missions left the country as the Taliban took control.Taliban gunmen at the entrance to the ultra-secure area initially asked the demonstrators and the press to move away.

 

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