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Women have been pushed out of the workplace and the education of most young women and girls was stopped in Afghanistan. As PBS's Jane Ferguson and videographer Eric O'Connor report on February 3, 2022, women, including Women for Women International's Storai Ahmadi, are raising their voices in protest.

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Storai Ahmadi on PBS News Hour
Raising their voices

Ahmadi explains how economic activities and travel restrictions have eliminated women's professional lives since the fall of Kabul. While the country has collapsed economically, women continue their resistance and vow not to surrender to oppression. Ahmadi weighs in on how numerous women's rights advocates forced to flee are committed to helping Afghanistan's women and girls from abroad.

 

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The Guardian reports on evacuation in Afghanistan, features Women for Women International's Marie Clarke.
Desperate crowds, empty flights and rage in Afghanistan at governments who failed to plan

Women for Women International's Marie Clarke offers her perspective to the Guardian on the evacuation of Afghans (20 Aug 2021). "It is amazing that private individuals and concerned citizens of America are organising themselves together to try and protect Afghan women, because of this vacuum of official, government-run mechanisms for those most at risk to have safe passage out of the country," said Clarke.

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Future uncertain for Afghan women after Taliban takeover

Marie Clarke details Women for Women International’s response to the rapidly evolving crisis in Afghanistan, and what the future may hold for women there for CBS News' Lana Zak (18 Aug 2021). "What we see over those last two decades is this tremendous transformation in relationships between the women in our program and their male relatives and their place in their community," Clarke told Zak.  

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The UK government must do everything it can to help Afghan women

The Guardian features an open letter to Boris Johnson, signed by Women for Women International, Gender Action for Peace and Security, and more than 100 other signatories (17 Aug 2021). 

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Microsoft News UK features Women for Women International’s program graduate Cinama from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Internatonal Women's Day, March 8, 2021.

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I am proud of being able to teach other women

MSN introduces Cinama, who participated in Women for Women International's Stronger Women, Stronger Nation's program in 2016, and shares her story about her experience, business, and continuing work with WfWI in the DRC. 

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