Aid chief urges Western diplomats to visit Kandahar, advocate for women’s rights

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Aid chief urges Western diplomats to visit Kandahar, advocate for women’s rights

Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, has called on Western diplomats to travel to Kandahar and take a more active role in advocating for women’s rights in Afghanistan. In an interview with France 24, Egeland praised the European Commission for maintaining a delegation in Afghanistan and for sending what he described as “courageous female diplomats” to the country. Kandahar is regarded as the Taliban’s power hub as it hosts the…