{"id":966900,"date":"2021-11-04T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=966900"},"modified":"2021-11-04T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:28:46","slug":"bipartisan-female-senators-push-biden-on-american-disengagement-from-afghanistan-protecting-afghan-women-from-taliban-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-female-senators-push-biden-on-american-disengagement-from-afghanistan-protecting-afghan-women-from-taliban-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Female Senators Push Biden On \u2018American Disengagement From Afghanistan,\u2019 Protecting Afghan Women From Taliban Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbipartisan-female-senators-push-biden-on-american-disengagement-from-afghanistan-protecting-afghan-women-from-taliban-rule%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=966900&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>All 24 sitting female senators sent a letter Thursday to President Joe Biden pressing him on the \u201cAmerican disengagement from Afghanistan\u201d and urging the administration to develop a plan to help Afghan women and girls suffering from Taliban rule.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst and Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein led the bipartisan effort for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/25\/taliban-afghanistan-women-rights-islamic-law\/\">accountability<\/a>, calling out the Biden administration for its commitment to hold the Taliban accountable. The U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan on Aug. 31, shortly after the Taliban took over the country, and women and girls there have seen their recently-earned freedoms quickly stripped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe write to urge your Administration to develop an interagency plan to preserve the political, economic, social, and basic human rights of Afghan women and girls,\u201d the letter to Biden, obtained by the Daily Caller, read. \u201cThis plan should also address how the United States will lead international organizations, such as the United Nations, in holding the Taliban accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican disengagement from Afghanistan puts at risk hard-won gains for Afghan women and girls,\u201d the letter continued, listing statistics from pre-Taliban rule on the number of females attending school, becoming entrepreneurs and working in high governmental positions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7314983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7314983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afghan schoolgirls walk along a path as they return from school in Mazar-i-Sharif on October 30, 2021. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR \/ AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ernst, Feinstein and the 22 other female senators noted that with the U.S. withdrawal and the collapse of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/afghanistan-women-taliban-cnn-kimberly-motley\/\">Afghan<\/a> government and military, \u201cwomen and girls are now suffering the predations of a Taliban regime with a track record of brutalizing, isolating, and denying them life and liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter also noted that the Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-1d4b052ccef113adc8dc94f965ff23c7\">vowed<\/a> to respect women\u2019s rights \u2013 within the regulations of Islamic law \u2013 but quickly reverted and have not upheld \u201cthose commitments.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/31\/lara-logan-ruthless-taliban-slow-death-afghan-women-lucky-ones-slaughtered-quickly\/\">(RELATED: Lara Logan: \u2018Ruthless\u2019 Taliban Will Be A \u2018Slow Death\u2019 For Afghan Women, The Lucky Ones Will Be \u2018Slaughtered Quickly\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There have been reports of Afghan <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/03\/afghan-women-forced-marriage-flee\/\">women<\/a> being beaten for protesting and the group was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-58455826\">accused<\/a> of killing a pregnant police officer in September. While some provinces have allowed girls to return to school with big caveats, other areas remain closed for education, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/27\/world\/asia\/afghan-girls-school-taliban.html\">according<\/a> to The New York Times. The Taliban also excluded women from top government positions, a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/taliban-afghanistan-women-sports-ban-cricket\/\">right<\/a> that many enjoyed shortly before the takeover earlier this year, and have worked in other ways to limit opportunities for females in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen have been the victims of targeted beatings and killing and are banned from leaving home without a male guardian,\u201d the female lawmakers noted. \u201cAfghanistan\u2019s former government, while flawed, was bound by a constitution that promoted human rights, and freedom of speech and assembly for both women and men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfghan women and girls need our action now,\u201d the letter added, concluding with a request for a briefing from the administration on its plans.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All 24 sitting female senators sent a letter Thursday to President Joe Biden pressing him on the \u201cAmerican disengagement from Afghanistan\u201d and urging the administration to develop a plan to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}