For more than seventeen years, is there a war being waged in Afghanistan. A breakthrough seems finally within reach now that the U.S. and the Taliban talk about peace. But that vredesoverleg would for Afghan women ever be capable of purpose.

While the American envoys to pressure to negotiate with some members of the Taliban, an islamic movement in Afghanistan, to create a socially active women are worried about the peace negotiations: women are allowed to not be the brunt of it. the

“We don’t want to back out,” says Robina Hamdard of Afghanistan Women’s Network (AWN) in a telephone interview with the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. “We have spent the last seventeen years certain things accomplished. We don’t want all lose.”

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Sharifa Sofi, an Afghan midwife, ” the story of Robina: “We want peace but without the regime of the Taliban to recover. That was a bad time for women. So if, for example, we absolutely don’t work.” The only exception were the female doctors and nurses: they may work but only under strict supervision and in command of your male colleagues.

to ensure that women adhere to the proposed rules, argued the Taliban regular patrols. The Department for Promoting Virtue and Combating of Sinfulness was responsible for the maintenance of the rule of law: women who are not dressed in the prescribed clothing, or women without a male companion on the street ventured, were arrested.

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