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Afghanistan's last female ambassador risks everything in her fight for the rights of girls and women and Afghanistan.
When the Taliban takes power in 2021, Afghanistan’s ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, finds herself representing a country whose government has fled and a new regime that she refuses to recognise.
Despite financial and logistical isolation, Bakhtari defies the Taliban to continue her fight for the rights of women in Afghanistan, setting up a programme to enable secret education to schoolgirls and organising political resistance.
Under increasingly difficult conditions, she becomes one of the most important international spokespersons for the women of Afghanistan, staying true to her motto ‘peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice’.
Followed by a Q&A with Manizha Bakhtari and Marika Theros.
Presented in partnership with Mosaic Global Foundation.
Mosaic Global Foundation is a UK‑registered charity working across Afghanistan and Central Asia to advance inclusive, pluralist and rights‑based approaches to policy, education and community engagement. Our work brings together policymakers, researchers and civil society actors to promote gender justice, support women and girls of Afghanistan and the region, and strengthen international understanding of the region’s evolving political and social landscape.
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