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The Documentary: Her Story Made History: Her Story Made History: Shukria Barakzai

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Shukria Barakzai

28/02/2018 GMT

Her Story Made History: Shukria Barakzai

Her Story Made History

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Her Story Made History, Her Story Made History: Shukria Barakzai

Shukria Barakzai was one of a handful of female MPs in Afghanistan to speak up for women

Shukria Barakzai was one of a handful of female MPs in Afghanistan to speak up for women's rights.

Lyse Doucet meets the redoubtable Shukria Barakzai, Afghanistan's ambassador to Norway. Shukria was appointed a member of the 2003 loya jirga, a body of representatives from all over Afghanistan that was nominated to discuss and pass the new constitution after the fall of the Taliban. In the October 2004 elections she was elected as a member of the House of the People or Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the National Assembly of Afghanistan. She was one of only a handful of female MPs to speak up for women's rights, and faced death threats for her views. In November 2014 she was injured in a suicide attack on a convoy in which she was travelling in Kabul.

(Photo: Shukria Barakzai. Credit: Massoud Hossaini/Getty Images)

The Documentary: Her Story Made History

Lyse Doucet talks to a series of remarkable women from across the globe about the relationship between women and democracy.

One hundred years on from the year in which the first British women won the right to vote, Lyse Doucet talks to a series of remarkable women from across the globe about the relationship between women and democracy.

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