The Global Jigsaw: The Taliban’s war on women

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A bonus episode from The Global Jigsaw looks at how the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan has led to the erasure of women from public life. There’s a UN-led campaign to recognise it as “gender apartheid”, but the international community is divided and lacking leverage. Three years after the group took the capital Kabul, our experts explain what life is like for half of the population and why women have become a proxy for the nation’s image of itself.

Producer: Kriszta Satori, Elchin Suleymanov Presenter: Krassi Twigg

The Global Jigsaw looks at the world through the lens of its media. Think of us as your media detectives, helping you get past the propaganda and misinformation. The Global Jigsaw comes from BBC Monitoring, which tracks, deciphers, and analyses news media in 100 languages. At BBC Monitoring, we don’t just speak the language, we understand the narrative. So we can help you untangle the context and single out rhetoric from reality, deception from truth. For more episodes just search The Global Jigsaw wherever you got this podcast.

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0:00.0	It was beautiful every morning. I work up, had my breakfast, then went to school.
0:08.0	It was really beautiful that you go to a place for learning and you make good friends.
0:14.0	I had a really, really good friends and still sometimes I do see them in my dreams.
0:20.0	And what is it for girls now?
0:22.0	Everything is there for only boys not for girls.
0:25.0	In August 2021, the Taliban sees the Afghan capital Kabul following the departure of US-led coalition forces.
0:35.0	The group that led an insurgency for 20 years is now once again in power,
0:40.0	this time ruling over the whole of Afghanistan.
0:43.0	The consequences for women have been profound.
0:47.0	Some women are saying that even we are not allowed to breathe.
0:52.0	Everything is dark, uncertain, complicated.
0:56.2	The life is like a prison at homes, no identity,
1:00.4	no work, no studies. And here's how the Taliban see it.
1:04.0	Women, women, women.
1:06.0	Women.
1:08.0	Women are not complete part of our economy.
1:10.0	So if they will set 50% of our population, if they will sit in home, so the next 50% will take
1:18.0	care of them. This is our duty as a man.
1:21.6	In this episode we'll try to understand the historical and cultural context of women's
1:26.3	place in the Taliban's world order.
1:29.8	Some UN figures want the group's erasure of women from public life to be recognized as gender
1:35.5	apartheid with women's agency and freedom destroyed. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Crassitweig and this is the Global
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