{"id":39293,"date":"2021-11-27T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/27\/we-will-start-again-afghan-female-mps-now-refugees-are-still-fighting-for-rights"},"modified":"2021-11-27T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:00:03","slug":"we-will-start-again-afghan-female-mps-fight-on-from-parliament-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39293","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will start again\u2019: Afghan female MPs fight on from parliament in exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Greece the women are advocating for fellow refugees \u2013 and those left behind under Taliban rule<\/p>\n<p>It is a Saturday morning in November, and Afghan MP Nazifa Yousufi Bek gathers up her notes and prepares to head for the office. But instead of jumping in an armoured car bound for the mahogany-lined parliament in Kabul, her journey is by bus from a Greek hotel to a migrants\u2019 organisation in the centre of Athens. There, taking her place on a folding chair, she inaugurates the Afghan women\u2019s parliament in \u2013 exile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur people have nothing. Mothers are selling their children,\u201d she tells a room packed with her peers. \u201cWe must raise our voices, we must put a stop to this,\u201d says Yousufi Bek, 35, who fled Afghanistan with her husband and three young children after the Taliban swept to power in August. Some around her nod in agreement; others quietly weep.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/27\/we-will-start-again-afghan-female-mps-now-refugees-are-still-fighting-for-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Greece the women are advocating for fellow refugees \u2013 and those left behind under Taliban ruleIt is a Saturday morning in November, and Afghan MP Nazifa Yousufi Bek gathers up her notes and prepares to head for the office. But instead of jumping i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,934,221,530,59,939,491,494,61,44,47,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-domestic-violence","category-europe","category-european-union","category-global-development","category-joe-biden","category-migration","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39294,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293\/revisions\/39294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}