“How do you describe something that feels like the slow suffocation of your people?” After four years of Taliban rule, the U.S. must take steps to be in solidarity with the women of Afghanistan. The Taliban has criminalized womanhood itself, erasing women from public life, strictly controlling them through hundreds of repressive decrees and orders. Women are barred from working and walking freely and cannot appear in public without a male chaperone. Their rights to education, employment, movement, assembly, expression, and cultural and religious participation have been stripped away one by one. Even a woman’s voice is forbidden, banned in last October’s Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law. https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/after-4-years-of-taliban-rule-the-u-s-must-take-steps-to-be-in-solidarity-with-the-women-of-afghanistan