International Invasion
-Osama bin Laden said that his organization Al Qaeda was responsible for the attacks on September 11. Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda was based, didn't allow foreign reporters to enter the country. The head of The Taliban government, Mullah Omar decided not to hand bin Laden over to the United States
-The U.S led an international military campaign intervening in Afghanistan immediately after the attacks.
-World leaders, including those from the UK and USA, cited the need to improve Afghan women’s rights as justification for the intervention
'[T]here cannot be true peace and recovery in Afghanistan without a restoration of the rights of women.'
-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
‘The conflict will not be the end. We will not walk away, as the outside world has done so many times before.’
-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair
-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair
-The Taliban were ousted from power by the American soldiers, fighting alongside afghan troops, by the end of 2001