Question follow-through · 75067
Afghanistan: Women's Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the UK is taking (a) on its own and (b) with international counterparts to improve the rights of Women and Girls in Afghanistan.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the UK is taking (a) on its own and (b) with international counterparts to improve the rights of Women and Girls in Afghanistan.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government condemns the Taliban's appalling repression of Afghan women and girls, and officials regularly raise those issues, and other priorities, most recently in July. In parallel, we continue to engage directly with a range of Afghans to inform an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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