Afghan Women Campaign for Peace

War-weary women in Afghanistan have unleashed an unprecedented campaign to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities and defend the freedom they have gained over the past decade in the mostly conservative and male-dominated Afghan society. The move comes amid intensifying fears the Islamist Taliban would try to regain power after NATO combat troops withdraw from the country in December.   Afghanistan’s nearly four-year long peace effort, made through a High Peace Council of prominent...

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