In Afghanistan, the Taliban have passed still more laws curtailing the lives of Afghani women living there. Since 2021, when the USA abandoned its 20-year attempt to introduce democratic processes and reconstruct Afghanistan after the Soviet-Afghanistan civil war, the Taliban have been fully back in control of that most beautiful, benighted place, and women have
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