October 22, 2021
Can governments stop being authoritarian?
![Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev receives Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (not pictured) in Tashkent.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/10/202110eca_uzbekistan_mirziyoyev.jpg?h=9c2fe7cc&itok=z84lgC50)
It Matters when the UN, Governments, and Aid Agencies Send Only Men to Talk to the Taliban
Report by Human Rights Watch Associate Director for Women’s Rights, Heather Barr
The ostensible assault on LGBT+ rights in Hungary, Poland and Russia has a very big target—anyone who signs up to universal norms.