Massouma Esmatey-Wardak - Afghan Woman Pioneer

The fight for women's rights in Afghanistan is a long slog. Despite the advances women in Afghanistan have made in the past ten years there is more work to be done.  These advances are also threatened by the possible concessions that the Karzai regime and international community may be contemplating at the negotiating table with the Taliban and other insurgent groups.  However, woman's issues did not just surface in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban; the women's movement has seen Afghan activists for quite a while. Read the story about an Afghan woman from an earlier time in "Determination defined: remembering an Afghan pioneer", The AFPAK Channel, February 22, 2012.