‘We will never stop fighting’: why Afghan women have risked their lives to attend a summit in Tirana
A conference in the Albanian capital aims to agree how women want the international community to react to the Taliban’s assault on their rights – and fight the erasure of their voices
In the garden of a hotel on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania, a group of Afghan women are singing, arms raised or slung around each other’s shoulders. Some are crying as they embrace friends or former colleagues they have not seen since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began systematically stripping away the rights and freedoms of 14 million Afghan women and girls.
Watching them is Fawzia Koofi, the former Afghan MP now living in exile in the UK, who has worked for more than two years to bring over 130 Afghan women together for the All Afghan Women summit in Tirana.
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