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Her Story Made History

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Lyse Doucet talks to remarkable women about the relationship between women and democracy.

Lyse Doucet presents in-depth interviews with remarkable women about the relationship between women and democracy.

Her Story Made History: Series 1

Her Story Made History: Series 1: Shukria Barakzai

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Shukria Barakzai

04/01/2018

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - Her Story Made History, Series 1, Shukria Barakzai

Lyse Doucet meets the redoubtable Afghan politician and diplomat Shukria Barakzai.

Lyse Doucet meets Shukria Barakzai, an Afghan politician and diplomat who has faced a suicide attack in her campaign for women's rights.

BBC Chief International Correspondent 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. 

This five-part series features in-depth interviews with remarkable women about the relationship between women and democracy, on the 100th anniversary of the first time British women won the vote. Lyse travels across the globe, meeting women from Iceland Liberia, Northern Ireland and Saudi Arabia to discover that the victory of 1918 in Britain has continued to resonate through the century. She hears reflections from some of the world's most influential women's rights activists, including former presidents, and shares her own experiences in reporting from some of the most troubled regions.

Producer: Ben Carter.

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