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Weekend: US: Improving women's rights in the Taliban's interests

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US: Improving women's rights in the Taliban's interests

14/05/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, US: Improving women's rights in the Taliban's interests

A US official tells the BBC the Taliban stand to gain by improving women's rights

A US official tells the BBC the Taliban stand to gain by improving women's rights.

The US Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights tells us why it’s in the Taliban's interests to improve women's rights.

Also, what do Sri Lankans make of the stark warning from their new Prime Minister about the state of the economy?

Joining Anna Holligan to discuss these and other issues are Joana Cook, assistant professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University; and Michael Peel, executive editor at Nikkei Asia, based in Tokyo and long-term journalist for the Financial Times.

(Image:  Afghan women in Kabul, Afghanistan. Credit: EPA)

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