more fair and equitable society. but it requires additional effort on our part, to push politicians to pass bells that reflect our interest, with the supreme court overturning roe versus wade, and affirmative action now on the chopping block. justice thomas signaling more rights can be taken away, it s high time to codify law and protect the rights, civil rights activists, women s rights activists. and lgbtq rights activists. there needs to be a house and senate that take these initiatives. this midterm election is bigger than one political party. it s about who will stand in the gap. and advocate for you. we must rise up, and continue our fight voting rights, reproductive freedoms, gun safety, justice for seniors, alleviating
women have kept fighting. this woman is an iranian women s rights activists. now she lives in exile, in the hague, in the netherlands. in 2006, her in a group of women in iran started a campaign called i million signatures, the campaign sought to change discriminatory laws against women. most of the women behind the campaign were arrested or exiled, but any generation of activists went online. with the
the only weapon i had was my camera. i did it so that i could show the world what the taliban are really like. what kind of group they are. and how they seek to forcefully silence women. how long were you in prison for? for about one month. and how were you treated. they treated mee disgracefully. they tortured meusin pipes, w organizinti-taliban protest and she is not alone. according to am nest nee amnesty international the talibans have devastated the rights of women in afghanistan since last year s take over. abdul qahar balki is the the spokeman. we spoke to women s rights activists, they talk about for ture, water boarding and other forms of abuse. we absolutely reject that. we do not engage in torture. a claim paryani calls a lie.
activists protested the taliban takeover in the capital, chanting words like work and freedom on the streets. the protest broke up when the taliban began firing warning shots into the air. joining us, msnbc international affairs analyst and matt zeller, senior adviser at iava and advisory board chair, also former cia analyst and afghanistan combat vet. what s it been like a year later for, for example, women in afghanistan, girls in afghanistan? well, jose, basically the dark cloud of war has been replaced with a dark cloud of starvation, uncertainty and hopelessness. 50% of the population, females, women, girls from all over the country who had hope, who had a future, whose families could hope for them, that s completely disappeared. we re seeing these women coming
pulled out of afghanistan last year, was what would happen to women and girls. is what you re seeing now a year on, is it what you expected? or is it worse? i think, you know, everyone wanted to believe the taliban s promises. i don t believe afghan women s rights activists ever believed them. but what s happened is as bad as could have imagined. there are very few differences between how the taliban are treating women now and how they treated them since last in power 1996 to 2001. and those signs of danger started immediately after the taliban takeover on august 15th. so, i think the real question now is why hasn t the international community done more to try to defend women s rights. what more do you think they can do? so, we think that well, first of all, i think we ve seen a real lack of focus and lack of