Afghan women need our support, post troop withdrawal

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Afghan women activists are urging the global community to ensure hard-won progress in Afghanistan in the past decade is not lost amid fears that as US and NATO-led troops leave they will be forgotten, AFP reports.

"We do not want to go back on our gains. Whatever we have gained in the past 10-11 years, we do not want to give an inch of it," said Mahbouba Seraj, founder and director of the Organization for Research in Peace and Solidarity.