This week, foreign diplomats met with Taliban officials in Doha, Qatar. The meeting is part of the “Doha Process,” which aims to address challenges in Afghanistan. Markedly absent: Afghan women, who were not invited to participate. Women’s rights activists wonder what a meeting, under these conditions, can really achieve. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.
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