Senior US Congressman Seeks Stronger Response to Taliban’s Actions Against Afghan Women
Michael McCaul, Chairman of US House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee, called the White House’s response to Taliban’s actions against Afghan women, as weak. In a letter to the US Secretary of State he also said that the Taliban have heinously treated Afghan women.
McCaul also urged the US administration to impose wider visa restriction sanctions against Taliban officials.
In his letter, McCaul stressed that under the Taliban’s rule, Afghan women and girls have been forced to hide away inside their homes, have been prevented from working, left out of humanitarian aid deliveries, barred from seeking healthcare without a male escort, banned from receiving an education above the 6th grade, tortured, forced to marry, and blocked from leaving the country.
He also said that women’s rights defenders in Afghanistan are persecuted, jailed, and murdered by the Taliban.
