Women of Afghanistan Under Taliban Threat

Mahbooba Seraj
Women gather at a training conference for parliamentarians. "Women have just as much a right to take part in leading Afghanistan now as they did then," says Seraj, standing, referring to historical female heroes in Afghanistan. "We must not compare women in Afghanistan to women in France or Sweden. We have to compare women now to women in 2001. And we have made huge progress."

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