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As Hind Elhinnawy observes:
'If the world can tolerate the Taliban’s abuses, Iraq’s restrictive laws & the US restrictions on abortion access, it reveals the fragility of women’s & girls’ rights globally, and how easy it is to take them away'!
Feminism's work is never done & any idea that once rights have been won they don't need continually defending against (mostly) male political attack is very much mistaken.
Patriarchy never rests!
@ChrisMayLA6 This is very interesting and why I never can take swedish feminists seriously. They don't say anything about Aghanistan. Instead they just continue harping on how women in sweden are slaves and exploited, and thus become more and more ridiculous.
Also reminds me of the former socialist government in sweden when they went to iran and the prime minister forced all the women to dress is moslem fashion as not to offend.
Melania and Trump on the other hand, if memory serves,
@ChrisMayLA6 said that's never gonna happen, and iran was ok with it in the end.
yes, if feminism makes sense it has to make sense globally - certainly there are local battles to be fought but theses can only be *part* of a feminist politics - to be fair (and this may be to do with academic context in which I worked), most feminists I know, like the article's author do take that global perspective - Governments on the other hand, not so much