“I have been looking forward to this meeting. It is a great pleasure to embark on what I hope will be close working relationships with people and organisations that are so important to the work of our Office. As our partners, our allies and constructive and insightful critics, many of you may be more aware […]
Interview with First Lady Rula Ghani (Bright Magazine)
Rula Ghani is unlike any first lady Afghanistan has ever had — and not just because she’s Lebanese and Christian. From the day her husband Ashraf Ghani, who she met while studying political science at the American University of Beirut, was inaugurated in 2014, it was clear she would not be a silent partner. She’s been a public […]
First Afghan woman to scale country’s highest peak was helped by Norfolk (Virginia) nonprofit
Hanifa Yousoufi was married off at 15 to an abusive man. They eventually divorced and she was left to fend for herself in a rigidly patriarchal society – writes Katherine Hafner. Earlier this month, the now-24-year-old became the first Afghan woman to summit her country’s tallest mountain. And she made it there with help from […]
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