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Women in Afghanistan worry peace accord with Taliban extremists could cost them hard-won rights

  • Written by Mona Tajali, Assistant Professor in IR and WGSS, Agnes Scott College
imageAudience members listen to Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi speak in 2014. Women's access to politics increased greatly after the Taliban's 2001 ouster.Sha Marai/AFP via Getty Images

Three Afghan women who worked at a media company were gunned down in Jalalabad in early March. In January, unidentified gunmen killed two female Supreme Court...

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