Question follow-through · 902157
Afghanistan: Women's Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help support the rights of women in Afghanistan.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help support the rights of women in Afghanistan.
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
We condemn the Taliban’s destruction of nearly every element of women and girls’ freedoms. FCDO officials engage with the Taliban to urge them to reverse their barbaric decisions and we work with our international partners to maintain collective pressure....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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