American actor Meryl Streep speaks up for Afghan women and girls at the United Nations, urging the international community to do more to "stop the slow suffocation" of half the population.
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00:00A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan today because the public parks
00:06have been closed to women and girls by the Taliban.
00:12A bird may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not, and a woman may not in public.
00:20This is extraordinary.
00:22This is a suppression of the natural law.
00:26This is odd.
00:29I feel that the international community as a whole, if they came together, could effect
00:36change in Afghanistan and stop the slow suffocation of an entire half the population who are incarcerated.