heather barr, sorry to rush ou globally. heather barr, sorry to rush you towards _ globally.s the end of. globally. heather barr, sorry to l rush you towards the end of that thought but we are out of time. thank you for your thoughts, from human rights watch. i'm back here with the headlines injust human rights watch. i'm back here with the headlines in just a human rights watch. i'm back here with the headlines injust a moment or two. with the headlines injust a moment ortwo. don't with the headlines injust a moment or two. don't go away. hello. it's a reasonably mild, but cloudy, day out there for most of us. most places also looking dry, which is good news after the fairly soggy start to december that many of us have seen. as we head into the weekend, a lot of dry weather around, mild and breezy, lots of cloud. but there will be increasing amounts of wind and rain across the north—west of the uk as weatherfronts move in here. not moving south too quickly because we've got high pressure that's stalling across southern parts of the uk, keeping things largely dry and keeping

heather barr is from human rights watch and gave me this reaction.e first things the taliban did after they took over was to dismantle the whole system that had been put in place by the government and ngos to respond to violence against women. it took them a bit longer but after that they largely dismantled the legal system. and so there's been more attention to banning girls from education and women from work but this is an important piece, too, of their systemic deprivation of the rights of women and girls and that crackdown is continuing and getting worse as we speak. taliban officials have said they would ask male members of the family to make "a commitment not to harm women survivors of abuse." even when i read that out, that seems absolutely extraordinary. the taliban have sent a very clear message that women are the property of their male family members. they have also said that if women go out and are not dressed as the taliban thinks they should be they will punish the male family members rather than the women themselves. so women are in thi

heather barr is the associate director of the women's right�*s division at human rights watch. known since august 15, 2021, which is that one of the first things the taliban did after they took over was to dismantle the whole system that had been put in place by the government and ngos to respond to violence against women. it took them a bit longer, but after that they largely dismantled the legal system. and so, you know, there's been more attention to them banning girls from education, women from work. but this is an important piece, too, of their systemic depravation of the rights of women and girls. and that crackdown is continuing and getting worse as we speak. the taliban officials have said they would ask male members of the family to make, quote, a commitment not to harm women survivors of abuse. even when i read that out, that seems absolutely extraordinary. i mean, the taliban have sent a very clear message that women are the property of their male family members. they've also said that if women go out and are not dressed as the taliban thinks they should be, they'll