Concerns grow over increased global ties with Taliban

(Be sure to watch the video included in the article) @anniekelly.bsky.social: "What we are seeing in Afghanistan is gender apartheid" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I'm afraid that events have transpired since 2021 which signalled to Europe and the whole global community that commitments to things like human rights are always negotiable and contingent. This may have contributed to the "smoke 'em if you got 'em" situation in which we now find ourselves.

'Afghanistan has become a “graveyard for human rights,” the United Nations said in March. India, Qatar, China, Iran and several central Asian states all recently welcomed Taliban officials or opened new channels of communication.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This would be a travesty and near guarantee of imprisonment in horrific conditions or execution. The Taliban are still actively hunting down and jailing or killing members of the former Afghan military. So many that served with NATO forces remain stranded in Afghanistan.

Taliban India, Qatar, China, Iran and several central Asian states all recently welcomed Taliban officials or opened new channels of communication. Russia, which recognised the Taliban government in Kabul just over a year ago, signed a military cooperation agreement last month..

Afghanistan: rich in high-grade copper and iron ores, chromium, caesium, lithium, barium, strontium, rare earth elements, cobalt, uranium, gold, lead, zinc, tin, tungsten, gemstones, coking coal and, of course, oil and gas. Human rights always comes second to mineral resources.

"it’s the height of hypocrisy to condemn Taliban abuses in one breath and cooperate in sending people back to them in the next." - @fereshtaabbasi.bsky.social, Afghanistan researcher @hrw.org, in op-ed @thehill.com Read more ⤵️

“Five years after the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan is experiencing the world’s worst women’s rights crisis, one of the worst human rights crises and one of the worst humanitarian crises,” said Fereshta Abbasi, Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch."

Afghan Women Erased From Public Life in Five Years of Taliban Rule www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/w...

“The Taliban in Afghanistan have launched a diplomatic effort to end their isolation as major regional and international powers show a readiness to engage more closely with the repressive regime despite its systematic human rights abuses” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Concerns grow over increased global ties with Taliban in Afghanistan Campaigners fear deeper diplomatic contacts are undermining demands for improvements in human rights www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is now the only country on earth where girls are barred from education past sixth grade. If #Trump and the #Republicans remain in power, America is likely to become the second.

👇🇦🇫"Five years after Kabul fell, the reckoning over Afghanistan is far from over" #Afghanistan

One in ten Afghan children are acutely malnourished. In one district in northern Afghanistan, Save the Children is the only healthcare provider for 10,000 people. While also making Afghanistan “one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a woman.” 😢 Why many Afghans I know/knew fought the TB

This is some bullshit. If these women-hating rat-fuckers want ties, the global community should be putting a solid condition down, and that’s equal rights for the women there, or it’s fuck all. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...