The Guardian (UK): The American actor Meryl Streep has said that “a squirrel has more rights” than an Afghan girl under the current Taliban regime. Streep, who attended an event on the situation facing women and girls in Afghanistan as part of the UN general assembly in New York, called the Taliban’s draconian restrictions on women’s lives a form of “suffocation”. “A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan today because the public parks have been closed to women and girls by the Taliban,” Streep said on Monday. “A bird may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not, and a woman may not in public.” Click here to read more (external link).