Afghan women fear a 'dark' future' and loss of rights as the Taliban gains ground. 'Women in Afghanistan are the most at danger or most at-risk population of the country,' one activist says.
“The purpose would be enabling women to contribute to the country in a peaceful and protected environment,”Fawzia Koofi, a women's rights activist, former lawmaker and member of the Afghan delegation that was working to negotiate peace with the Taliban before the U.S. military's withdrawal, said that women in her country felt “betrayed.”
Women's rights activist and former Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi says she fears a future under Taliban rule would be "dark" for women in Afghanistan.Elsewhere, women expressed their fears of a future with"no right to education, no right to teach, no right to work," in a letter shared with NBC News by the office of Rohgul Khairzad, the deputy governor of Nimroz province.after U.S. forces began pulling out of the country.
The letter also expressed fears that women and girls could be forced to marry members of the militant group. While she did not believe this practice was widespread, Koofi said, that did not mean that misconduct was not happening, adding that it was likely that the Taliban’s political office was “disconnected with their military fighters.”
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