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‘Peace where rights aren’t trampled’: Afghan women’s demands ahead of Taliban talks
With negotiations set to begin, women have been sharing their ‘red lines’ on the progress they refuse to see negotiated
Farahnaz Forotan was three when the Taliban had arrived in Kabul. It was 1996. “I have this memory of a snowy day, I was sitting on my mother’s lap, in a minibus, and she was crying. I didn’t understand why she was crying,” Forotan says. It was the day her family became refugees.
“It was the civil war, and we had to leave our home and country to live in Iran – alive, but living in pain and facing discrimination,” she says.