To be seriously disappointed that the women on Mumsnet are not talking about What is happening to women in Afghanistan, right now?

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Seriously, look at the unimportant stuff on the chat list today. Am I the only one who is thinking about those poor girls?

My daughter was born just as we entered Afghanistan and removed the Taliban. she is now 20 at uni and loving life (despite COVID).Her peers in Afghanistan as of yesterday were doing the same. Herat Uni has over 50% women studying in it.

As of today they have been told to go home, cover up, hand in their car keys and wait,,....for what? To be forced into marriage and forget their dreams?

I can’t help imagining how my daughter would feel..what could you say as a mother?it is heart breaking.

I also lived in Mexico for a while.
The UK has no historical links with Mexico and a very limited interest in the country.

I currently live in the US which reports very little on anything outside its borders but is more focused on Mexico because it shares a border.

A question I was often asked in Mexico was "Is this what you expected from Mexico" usually if we were somewhere particularly nice or "Mexicans don't just garden"
I thought both of these comments were really odd until I lived in the USA and realized the image there of a Mexican is an uneducated gardener living in a basic way.
It wasn't my image because the UK reports so little on Mexico I mostly just associated it with luxury holidays.

Mexico isn't an important geopolitical country so unless there is a country connection there won't be much reporting.

Iran is a very important geopolitical country and one with historical links to the UK so it isn't surprising there is more reporting. I would suggest Afghanistan is the same.

That is a fair comment @paddlingon, but the UK media do report things about Mexico and often they are totally untrue.

But it is not just international affairs that are misreported, we have also seen how women's issues in the UK are misreported in the media.

As far as I can see, the UK has a vested interest in making the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan look like a disaster for the Afghanis. That doesn't mean the reports are lying, just that I cannot assume that they are true.