http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-13-2013/fawzia-koofi
Extended:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/extended-interviews/423839/playlist_tds_extended_fawzia_koofi/423822
Since I wrote my paper on the subject of women's rights in Afghanistan, I found this interesting when I saw it on the T.V. the other day. Fawzia Koofi is the first female to be in the parliament in Afghanistan, and she's also planning to run for president in the next election. She talks briefly about her hardships, and how she got out of that to get to where she is today. She also talks about her hopes for Afghanistan. It's amazing how fast the rights for women have grown after the Taliban fell from power. Even after Hamid Karzai's remarks on how woman should act by ethics a year ago in March that could have set back women's rights by many years if enforced, they grew right past it like nothing happened to get this far.
-Mitchel Hamilton
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