U.S.-based human rights lawyer Kimberley Motley is trying to help the Afghan Dreamers robotics team to flee newly Taliban-controlled Afghanistan for safety in Canada.
TORONTO -- An all-girls robotics team in Afghanistan is pleading to come to Canada to escape Taliban rule, which has reportedly already started to clamp down on the rights of women and girls.
“The main thing is that the girls are protected,” Motley told CTV’s Your Morning on Wednesday. “We’re concerned about their security.” “These are basic human rights these girls have known their whole lives because of our international intervention in Afghanistan,” Motley said, adding the international community has to make sure that the rights of the team and those of all girls in Afghanistan are protected.
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