In the garden of a hotel on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania, a group of Afghan women are singing, arms raised or slung around each other’s shoulders. Some are crying as they embrace friends or former colleagues they have not seen since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began systematically stripping away the rights and freedoms of 14 million Afghan women and girls.
Watching them is Fawzia Koofi, the former Afghan MP now living in exile in the UK, who has worked for more than two years to bring over 130 Afghan women together for the All Afghan Women summit in Tirana.
