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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar

A year after Taliban's return, some women fight for lost freedoms

Kerishma Rasheedi, 16, and her classmates attend a lesson at a private school in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

Monesa Mubarez is not going to give up the rights she and other Afghan women won during 20 years of Western-backed rule easily.

Before the hardline Islamist Taliban movement swept back to power a year ago, the 31-year-old served as a director of policy monitoring at the finance ministry.

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