{"id":77704,"date":"2026-08-15T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77704\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:20:41","slug":"the-promises-the-taliban-made-to-women-then-broke-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77704\/","title":{"rendered":"The promises the Taliban made to women, then broke | Explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The promises the Taliban made to women, then broke | Explainer\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_OubuLP0eSE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe promises the Taliban made to women, then broke | Explainer<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFive years of Taliban rule has heavily discriminated against women, despite the group claiming it would protect their rights.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/guardianwiressub<\/p>\n<p>Guardian journalist Annie Kelly looks back at the statements that Taliban leaders made in 2021 and the reality of women&#8217;s lives in Afghanistan today<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today \u25ba https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to the Guardian&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, First Edition \u25ba http:\/\/theguardian.com\/first-edition<\/p>\n<p>Website \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com<br \/>\nFacebook \u25bahttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theguardian<br \/>\nInstagram \u25ba https:\/\/instagram.com\/guardian<br \/>\nBluesky \u25ba https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/theguardian.com<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian on YouTube:<br \/>\nThe Guardian \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@theguardian<br \/>\nGuardian Australia \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@guardianaustralia<br \/>\nFootball Weekly \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@footballweeklypodcast<br \/>\nToday in Focus \u25ba www.youtube.com\/@todayinfocuspodcast<br \/>\nStateside \u25ba www.youtube.com\/@statesidepodcast<br \/>\nPolitics Weekly \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@politicsweekly<br \/>\nScience Weekly \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@scienceweeklypod<br \/>\nGuardian Football \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@guardianfootball<br \/>\nGuardian Sport \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@guardiansport<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Complicated \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@itscomplicated<br \/>\nGuardian Live \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@guardianlive<\/p>\n<p>#taliban #Afghanistan #women #equality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The promises the Taliban made to women, then broke | Explainer Five years of Taliban rule has heavily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1646,30814,272,240,261,18355,5178,178],"class_list":["post-77704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-equality","tag-gdnpfpnewsworld","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-taliban","tag-women","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117099312183734832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}