Posts Tagged ‘ Hamid Karzai ’

Fawzia Koofi targets Afghan presidency as fight for women’s rights continues

February 17, 2012
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Fawzia Koofi targets Afghan presidency as fight for women’s rights continues

Lizzy Davies Fawzia Koofi was elected as an MP in 2005 and became the Afghan parliament’s first female deputy speaker. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian The questions came thick and fast but the woman sitting on the podium in a pink headscarf and high heels took them all in her stride. The Taliban,...

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Letters: What future for Afghanistan?

December 4, 2011
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The appalling case of Gulnaz (Afghan woman jailed for being raped to be freed – if she marries her attacker, 2 December) is a stark reminder of how much is at stake over women’s human rights in Afghanistan, as it moves ever closer to talks with the Taliban and a future without international forces...

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