Fearing for their lives: Rescuing Afghanistan's women judges
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As August 15 marks one year since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, we again report on the plight of Afghan women. Annette Young talks to Fawzia Aminy, a Supreme Court judge who managed to escape to Britain via Greece within weeks of Kabul falling, and to the woman who helped facilitate her rescue, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, the director of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute. The two are seeking to help those women left behind.
Our team also meets a young woman entrepreneur in Kabul struggling to keep her business alive under the Taliban.
The 51 Percent is taking a break over the European summer and will return early September.
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