A Place at the Table: Safeguarding Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Author: Louise Hancock, Oxfam Policy Advisor; Orzala Ashraf Nemat, Afghan academicTen years after the start of the western intervention in Afghanistan, Afghan women are facing an uncertain future. Women have strived for and made important gains since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, including in political participation and access to education, but these gains are fragile and reversible.
As security deteriorates across the country, violence against women is also on the rise. Both the Afghan and US governments are attempting to engage in parallel talks with the Taliban to reach a political solution to the conflict before the international military forces withdraw by the end of 2014.
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