Meryl Streep says a ‘squirrel has more rights’ than an Afghan girl [Video]

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TÁNAISTE MICHEÁL MARTIN and actress Meryl Streep have co-hosted a discussion at the United Nations in New York about women’s future in Afghanistan. 

With women’s rights severely restricted since the Taliban forcibly took power in 2021, Streep said in a speech: “A bird may sing in Kabul. A girl may not and a woman may not.”

The Tánaiste is at the UN’s New York headquarters for the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week and is attending a number of events about gender equality, including co-hosting the discussion about women in Afghanistan with Streep.

In her address, Streep highlighted the extreme limitations imposed by the Taliban regime on women and girls.

“In the 1970s… there were women in every profession [in Afghanistan], and then the world upended. And today, in Kabul, a female cat has more freedoms than a woman.

“A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel …