Guest: Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin (Ireland), United Nations (UN)  Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Counter-Terrorism.Host: Rita Manchanda, Women's Regional Network (WRN) Board Member."If the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda doesn't mean something now it's worthless!” says Ní Aoláin to governments and women’s networks on 20 years of commodification and misuse of Afghan women’s voices.1. What kind of response is possible of the international community and how do you see your role in particular, especially vis-a-vis the most vulnerable in Afghanistan today? Girls and women.2. How do you feel about in fact this whole militarization of the women, peace and security agenda?3. What are the issues that you have actually prioritized and engaged with/without governments? 4. You're seeing de-radicalization camps set up in Sri Lanka, the suspect community, this time being, of course the Muslims. Do you engage on this? 5.  With COVID 19, how do you assess the gender impact, particularly on women of this expansion of the securitized infrastructure? 6. In view of what is happening in Afghanistan and the slew of security measures, anti-terrorism measures that are likely to be brought in by nervous states, particularly like India?7. Do you feel a roll back of authoritarian exceptionalism, justified in the name of COVID, that we're likely to see actually more repressive measures, more surveillance or more authoritarian, regulatory laws? Conversation: 17 August 2021