Two decades of gains in rights and liberties for the women of Afghanistan hang by a thread as many go into hiding
The embassy of Afghanistan occupies a handsome redbrick mansion in a serene and tree-lined Washington neighbourhood, deserted apart from dog-walkers and joggers, as distant from the gunfire and panic of Kabul as could be imagined.
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