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Will the Biden Administration Take a Powder on Women’s Rights When Taliban Meets With UN at Qatar?

Afghan regime refuses to include women in its delegation to its first UN parley.

AP/Ebrahim Noroozi
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group at Kabul. AP/Ebrahim Noroozi
GABRIEL DIAMOND
GABRIEL DIAMOND

The Taliban will meet with United Nations officials at Qatar this weekend amidst criticism of the militant Islamic group’s failure to include women in its delegation — a big win for the Taliban. The question on analysts’s minds is whether the Biden administration will sit on its hands. 

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GABRIEL DIAMOND
GABRIEL DIAMOND

Mr. Diamond is a fellow at the Yorktown Institute. He has written for, among other papers, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Hill, National Review, and the Boston Globe.

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