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"Now is the time to put pressure on the Taliban!"

2021-10-14T13:57:31.329Z


INTERVIEW - Fawzia Koofi is convinced: there is hope for women and ethnic minorities, provided the international community wakes up.


By Andrés Allemand Smaller, the Tribune de Genève

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“It's being played out now.

In Afghanistan, the decisive issue is women's rights.

If the Taliban under international pressure finally live up to their promises, there will be a future for all in my country. ”

Fawzia Koofi is not one to give up, she who was the very first Afghan woman to lead a political party, then the very first to hold the vice-presidency of the National Assembly.

Armed with her outspokenness, she tirelessly campaigns for the education of girls, especially in her own remote province of Badakhshan, and has not hesitated to participate in the peace negotiations started last year in Qatar between the Taliban authorities. and the former government of Kabul.

It was also in Doha that she took refuge at the end of August with her two daughters.

"But I will return to Afghanistan, that's for sure," she

says despite the two assassination attempts she luckily survived.

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Source: lefigaro

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