In Foreign Affairs, ASAP’s Amiri addresses how to protect Afghan women’s rights

Rina Amiri, an ASAP steering committee member and former UN and U.S. diplomat and currently a Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, today published in Foreign Affairs Magazine her reflections on how best to protect the rights of Afghan girls and women.

“The Biden administration must make sure that those words are more than empty rhetoric,” she writes. “The United States might be closing the military chapter of its relationship with Afghanistan, but it cannot close the book altogether — especially after helping Afghan women and youth to connect with the world and internalize the value of democracy and the possibility of choosing their future.”

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