<span style="color: #222222;">The United Nations Women's agency representative in Afghanistan, Alison Davidian said yesterday that the rollback on women's rights in that country is an alarm bell to the world. She said, it shows how decades of progress can be wiped away in months.<br />''<br />''Deputy Country Representative for U.N. Women in Afghanistan Alison Davidian said that anywhere in the world, the act of walking outside your front door is an ordinary part of life. She spoke to reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York via a video link from Kabul. Her remarks come as more than 20 countries and international organizations meet with Taliban officials in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. The Taliban are preparing to mark a year since they seized power after Ashraf Ghani's Government collapsed and he fled the country last August.<br />''<br />''Since coming to power, the group has reneged on pledges not to restrict women's rights, increasingly cracking down on how they dress, on their ability to hold jobs outside the home, get an education, move freely or participate in political life.</span><br />