Afghanistan Feature: The Vision of Leading Female MP Fawzia Koofi (The Guardian)

What both the government and the international community need to do is allocate funds for health and other facilities, allocate it in ways that is transparent to everyone and monitor their use. Many people die because of bombings and insecurity, but this is much more dangerous --- the deaths of women and children damages the whole infrastructure of society.

To achieve this we need to keep going forward with democracy. One of the main achievements of 2001 for the women of the world, for the taxpayers of the world, was women's freedom in Afghanistan. If we lose these values, the country will go back hundreds of years.

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