Afghanistan has the same righteous cause as Ukraine

Despite the scale of this human suffering, nearly a year into the Taliban’s brutal takeover of Afghanistan, the international response has settled into passive acquiescence.

Lauryn Oates, executive director of the Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, pictured in Afghanistan. 'If the government can go to such great lengths to find flexible measures to support innocent Ukrainians fleeing oppression, it is legitimate to ask why such measures cannot be implemented for innocent Afghans too,' Oates writes. Photograph courtesy of Talullah

Opinion

BY LAURYN OATES

August 15, 2022

Aug. 15 will mark a year since the Taliban retook Afghanistan, plunging some 35 million people into a dystopian hell. With more than half the population now on the verge of starvation, their ne...

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