Former chairperson of afghanistans independent human rights commission. What would morally acceptable engagement look like . Shaharzad akbar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its good to be here. Its good to have you here. If i may, im going to start with some powerful words of yours. You wrote recently, i spend every day with a fire burning in my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer living in your homeland youre living here in the uk. Does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel . Absolutely. I mean, every day, ifeel like im living two different realities at the same time. I wake up in oxford, where im a visiting scholar, and its green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. And then, im all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. And during the day, several times, i have to kind of stop myself a
My guest is shaharzad akbar, former chairperson of afghanistans independent human rights commission. What would morally acceptable engagement look like . Shaharzad akbar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its good to be here. Its good to have you here. If i may, im going to start with some powerful words of yours. You wrote recently, i spend every day with a fire burning in my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer living in your homeland youre living here in the uk. Does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel . Absolutely. I mean, every day, ifeel like im living two different realities at the same time. I wake up in oxford, where im a visiting scholar, and its green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. And then, im all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. And during the day, several times, i
of communication includes working meetings between the departments of defence and chinese officials. both sides also agreed to establishing a us china artificial intelligence and anti drug cooperation working group, to address the fentanyl crisis. and the issue of taiwan also came up in the talks. president biden said the us maintains its one china policy, but added that he expects china not to interfere in taiwan s upcoming elections. overall, mr biden hailed the meeting calling the talks some of the most constructive and productive discussions we ve had. in a press conference following the meeting, he spoke of the need for both sides to work together. the united states will continue to compete vigorously with the prc, but we ll manage that competition responsibly. so it doesn t veer into conflict, oraccidental conflict, and where it s possible, where our interests are, coincide. we re going to work together like we did on fentanyl. that s what the world expects of us. the
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