Sixty of Afghanistan's 69 women MPs are scattered across the globe, but many aim to continue fighting for women's rights.
After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan the country's female MPs were among thousands who had to run for cover. The BBC has discovered that 60 of the 69 are now scattered in different countries across the globe, but many want to continue fighting for Afghan women's rights.
If she had been identified at a Taliban checkpoint, she would certainly have been detained, Mashid says. But officials would not expect an MP to wear a burka, she says, and "they think that all Afghan politicians and woman activists have been evacuated." Serina got airlifted to Germany with her husband and a three-month-old baby. Before leaving Afghanistan she caught tuberculosis, and is now being treated with antibiotics, while staying in a camp for asylum seekers.
"I have been brought up in war and misery," she says. "But I shall raise my child in the same culture, customs, and feeling of my motherland."Many of the MPs are would like to get to Canada, which has said it will take 5,000 Afghan refugees. "I lost my province in the morning and my president in the afternoon," describing the quickly unfolding events of 15 August. "Nothing surprised me by the end of the day."
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