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Five years after the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan's women are silent, with Mahbooba Faiz
Five years on from the dramatic scenes of desperate people clambering onto planes at Kabul Airport, the Taliban are back in power and Afghanistan's women have been silenced.No singing, talking or showing their faces in public. No education, no work, no access to healthcare in most cases.A small number of Afghan women travelled to Ireland in the direct aftermath of the US departure, under a specific refugee scheme opened by the Government.Mahbooba Faiz was a lawyer in Afghanistan. After years of further study, she is now a paralegal with the Cork based law firm RDJ and has written for the…
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