Women in the Parliament of Afghanistan
Females in the Afghan Parliament
Women were able to be members in the Parliament of Afghanistan from the United States invasion of Afghanistan until the Fall of Kabul in 2021. Since then those who were elected have gone into hiding, many fleeing the country entirely. Many of them were recognised as part of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021.
History
There were 69 elected in the 2018 parliamentary election, but most of them currently reside in Greece as refugees. They live in Athens in exile.
“Women in the Parliament of Afghanistan” enters the record as females in the Afghan Parliament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Women, Parliament and Afghanistan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 17, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q110130010. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2018.
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