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Remembering a time when Afghan women had a voice and agency | Letter

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John Griffiths says in the 1960s he witnessed women discussing politics with men in Afghanistan’s parliament Your article, with its account of forced marriage, illustrates how Afghanistan’s 22 million women and girls need to be freed from Taliban-imposed…

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