AFGHANISTAN: Life with Taliban Laws
As the Taliban announces new sets of laws further curbing girls'/women's rights, what are things really like on the ground, how do we all engage with them, and what does the future look like now?
SPEAKERS
~ Kathy Gannon (@Kathygannon) was News Director of Associated Press for Pakistan & Afghanistan for more than 3 decades, was most recently Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School, and is author of I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror -- 18 Years Inside Afghanistan (2006).
~ Parasto Hakim (@Parasto_Hakim) is founder of SRAK Afghanistan (an educational charity working in Afghanistan), and an education rights activist fighting the Taliban ban on girls'/women's education currently living in Europe.
~ Ali M. Latifi (@alibomaye) is a journalist based in Kabul, and currently Asia Editor at The New Humanitarian.
~ Saad Mohseni (@saadmohseni) is Director of MOBYgroup which produces & broadcasts TOLO News in Afghanistan, and author (with Jenna Krajeski) of Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty Year Struggle for an Independent Voice in Kabul (2024).
~ Mahbouba Seraj (@SerajMahbouba) was until recently Director, Afghan Women Skills Development Center (@AWSDC1) and Founder & President, Organisation for Research in Peace & Solidarity -- and lives in Kabul.
CHAIR
~ Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
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Image © Farid Ershad, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 2022, Unsplash.
