First Person: ‘I realized Afghan women were still fighting. And I chose to be one of them’ | UN News
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Nasima*, 36, is a peacebuilder and a women’s rights activist in Afghanistan. After the Taliban regained effective control of the country a year ago, she continued to work in Afghanistan, in what would soon become one of the world’s most complex humanitarian emergencies.
UN Women is on the ground in Afghanistan, supporting Afghan women and girls every day.The agency’s in-country strategy pivots around investing in women—from scaling up support for women survivors of violence in provinces where they have never been before, to supporting women humanitarian workers in the delivery of essential services and providing seed capital to women-led businesses. The goal of rebuilding the Afghan women’s movement remains central to the agency’s work. Find out more about UN Women's work in Afghanistan, and the situation for women in the country, one year on from the Taliban takeover, here.
