Afghan woman leaders are very worried about the country’s
situation post-2014. They have very little or no information about the on-going
secret dialogue that is gradually taking place between the Karzai people and
the Taleban leaders and they fear that the priority that is given to peace at
any cost will have a very heavy cost as far as women’s rights are concerned. They
believe that there is a trade-off on the table that will buy the Taleban in and
will place the women out…
The women are also very surprised that the big partners of
Afghanistan seem more interested in “sustaining” peace – a way of showing that
the many years of military intervention have achieved durable results and that
the operational assistance was therefore worth the sacrifice and the money – than
on protecting the human rights gains.
These are very legitimate concerns. They are even more justified
when one looks at President Karzai’s increasing silence about women's issues.
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