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EU Taliban invite ‘the wrong signal to anyone that is using power as a means of suppression’
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Human rights groups are raising the alarm after the European Commission invited Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss migrant deportations. More than 80 groups are asking the European Commission to reverse course, saying that the move risks normalizing a regime that has banned girls from school, and barred women from much of public life. FRANCE 24’s Monte Francis speaks with Fawzia Koofi, former Vice President of Afghanistan’s National Assembly. She says that inviting the Taliban ‘sends the wrong signal to anyone that is using power as a means of suppression’.
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