Today I would like to bring you the story of my friend and colleague Sweeta Noori, an Afghan woman working with me to empower women survivors of war through Women for Women International's Afghanistan Chapter. Through her life we see how, despite decades of political shifts in Afghanistan, the symbolic manipulation of women's rights is an unfortunate constant.
My life has not been particularly long--I'm only 36--but already I have been a daughter, a mother, a leader, a war-survivor and three-times...
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