Searching for Afghanistan’s Missing Women

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan last year and the Taliban swept into power, FRONTLINE correspondent Ramita Navai and colleagues traveled the country, investigating the Taliban regime’s treatment of women. The resulting documentary, Afghanistan Undercover, revealed the harrowing realities women faced in Afghanistan.

In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch, Navai talked with FRONTLINE executive producer and editor-in-chief Raney Aronson-Rath about reporting a story the Taliban didn’t want told, including secretly filming on the grounds of a prison in Herat, Afghanistan, where women said they were being held without trial.

“We needed that evidence,” Navai said. “We heard what was happening. We needed to see it for ourselves.”

Afghanistan Undercover is now streaming on FRONTLINE’s website, the PBS Video App and FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.

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0:00.0	Right now, U.S. helicopters over Kabul shuddling out American personnel as the Taliban moves
0:09.9	into the capital.
0:11.8	After 20 years, the Taliban took Kabul and Afghanistan almost effortlessly.
0:17.5	Social media posts showed scenes of chaos as thousands of Afghans swarmed the tarmac trying
0:24.0	to get on any flight to escape.
0:26.4	This August marks one year since U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, and the Taliban
0:31.9	swept back into power.
0:33.4	Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan.
0:40.6	The Taliban say they're bringing peace and ending corruption.
0:44.1	The Taliban insists that we'll respect women's rights within the framework of Sharia law.
0:48.8	We want to assure the international community that we'll be no discrimination against women,
0:53.4	but, of course, within our religious framework.
0:55.8	At the time, the Taliban pledged to respect the rights of women, but quickly facts on
1:00.8	their ground began to tell a different story.
1:03.7	In front lines new documentary, Afghanistan Undercover, correspondent Ramida Navai investigates
1:09.9	the group's crackdown on women.
1:12.8	Over the course of several months, Shia and her colleagues traveled the country, often
1:17.2	operating undercover.
1:18.8	We're hearing so many stories of abuse at the hands of the Taliban, but none of these stories
1:23.9	are getting out.
1:24.9	In this episode of The Frontline Dispatch, a conversation with Ramida Navai about her reporting
1:30.2	in Afghanistan and the plate of women there.
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