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Afghanistan is a graveyard of dreams for women and girls, says rights activist

In the nearly two years since Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities seized power, the “ambitions, dreams and potential” of girls and women have perished, a rights activist has told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.And in an exclusive interview with UN N…

In the nearly two years since Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities seized power, the “ambitions, dreams and potential” of girls and women have perished, a rights activist has told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

And in an exclusive interview with UN News’s Nancy Sarkis, Afghan civil rights activist Shaharzad Akba explains that women and girls there talk of “being buried alive, breathing, but not being able to do much else”.

 


This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Nancy Sarkis.


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