By Amanda Bradley August 5. 2020 – The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security hosted a Zoom webinar entitled “Standing with Afghan Women: Ensuring Meaningful Inclusion in the Intra-Afghan Peace Talks”, which focused on the importance of Afghan women in the anticipated peace talks in Afghanistan. Viewers were able to explore the delicate nature […]
Afghanistan: Women negotiators seek to preserve rights in Afghan peace talks
By Feroza Azizi & Abubakar Siddique March 20, 2020 – KABUL, — Women named as part of an Afghan delegation tasked with conducting peace talks with the Taliban say they will be attempting to preserve women’s rights in complex negotiations with the hard-line Islamist movement aimed at ending four decades of war in Afghanistan. We will be aiming […]
In Afghan peace talks, women need a seat at the table
Afghanistan is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman. Senator Jeanne Shaheen says that to change that, women need to have a voice in Taliban peace talks. On a recent trip to Afghanistan, I met with a group of Afghan women who described how dramatically their lives had changed since […]