International

Sara Carter tells the stories of Afghans trying to escape

Published

2 years ago

August 30, 2021

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By Jenny Goldsberry

Sara Carter has spent the last month doing all she can to get vulnerable Afghans out of their country. On the latest episode of The Sara Carter Show, she talked in detail about the story of one woman who is stranded there.

A man texted Carter asking for help last week. His wife is trapped in Afghanistan, desperate to get out. After she spent three days at the airport, she still wasn’t able to get on a plane out of the country.

“She’s at Kabul University. She’s all alone,” Carter said. “She has a relative that can help her but none of them have vehicles.” Meanwhile, her husband is a resident in New York.

“Imagine being in your 20’s, being a young girl,” Carter mused. “And being told that, hey, we’re not going to be able to get anyone to you. You’re going to have to make it through Taliban checkpoints.”

According to Carter, the secret for women passing these checkpoints is strict obedience. “I’m going to have to call her husband now and tell him, Look, you got to prepare her,” Carter said. “She has one option and one option only. She needs to be brave. And she needs to listen to instructions.”

In the meantime, Carter along with other advocates all over the world are participating in a “digital Dunkirk” to continue to help Afghans. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted out a joint statement with 100 countries documenting the Taliban’s promises to allow safe travel out.

Today, nearly 100 countries issued a joint statement on the assurances by the Taliban that all foreign nationals and any Afghan citizen with travel authorization from our countries will be allowed to safely travel outside Afghanistan. We will hold the Taliban to that commitment. https://t.co/nZtyWPHsJu
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) August 29, 2021

Blinken says the U.S. will keep the airport open through Tuesday.

You can follow Jenny Goldsberry on Twitter @jennyjournalism.

International

Mental health crisis spikes among Afghan women after Taliban regained control two years ago

Published

5 days ago

September 21, 2023

Sara Carter Staff

The women of Afghanistan are suffering a mental health crisis since the Taliban regained power two years ago. According to a joint report from three U.N. agencies released Tuesday, approximately 70% of women experience feelings of anxiety, isolation and depression.

The numbers continue to rise, as there has already been a significant jump between April and June of this year alone, with an increase from 57% the preceding quarter.

The report, conducted by U.N. Women, the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, interviewed women online, in-person and in group consultations as well as individual telesurveys.

592 Afghan women in 22 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces took part in the study. The Associated Press reports:

They have barred women from most areas of public life and work and banned girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade. They have prohibited Afghan women from working at local and non-governmental organizations. The ban was extended to employees of the United Nations in April.

Opportunities to study continued to shrink as community-based education by international organizations was banned and home-based schooling initiatives were regularly shut down by the de facto authorities — a term use by the U.N. for the Taliban government.

Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education and the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The report also served as a vessel for Afghan women to send a message to the rest of the world: do not validate the Taliban government. Forty-six percent of women said international recognition of the Taliban government should not happen under any circumstances, while 50% warned that recognition should only occur under specific conditions contingent on improving women’s rights.

The report notes that the women expressed concern that recognition would only encourage the Taliban government to continue becoming stricter in their policies and practices against women and girls.

Afghan women had specific ideas and suggestions: they “urged the international community to continue political and economic sanctions against the Taliban, including by not granting exemptions to a travel ban. They urged an increase in engagement with the Taliban on gender equality and women’s rights, including by engaging community and religious leaders in awareness and advocacy efforts” writes the Associated Press.