Five years on from the fall of #Kabul and the final US withdrawal, the true failure is measured in freedoms denied. The #Taliban have issued over 100 decrees restricting women and girls, while 2.4 million girls are excluded from secondary education.

A country cannot have a future if half its population is shut out of education, work and public life. Europe must keep Afghan women’s rights at the heart of its foreign policy, rather than receiving Taliban representatives in Brussels #Afghanistan #afghanwomen