In less than seven months since taking over Afghanistan, the Taliban have repeatedly attacked the rights of women and girls—from restricting women’s movement to abducting activists. “Afghanistan is not the only country where women’s rights are under attack this International Women’s Day. But the speed and extent of the obliteration of women’s rights in Afghanistan is a warning to women around the world about the fragility of progress toward equality, how quickly it can vanish, and how few will defend it. We should all be in solidarity with Afghan women; their fight is a fight for women’s rights everywhere,” says HRW Director Heather Barr. #InternationalWomensDay #AfghanWomen #WomensRights #MiddleEast #MiddleEastMatters #afghanistan