Yahoo: Up-and-coming female politicians to watch

Yahoo news  lists Ms. Fawzia Koofi as one of the ”Up-and-coming female politicians to watch”

Yahoo:

Fawzia Koofi is Afghanistan’s first female MP. While she comes from a political family, she still had to fight for her voice to be heard. Left to die in the sun by her mother (who eventually relented and took her back in), she became the first girl in her family to receive an education and has been outspoken about her struggles with the Taliban, which imprisoned her husband and tried to assassinate her multiple times.

Fawzia Koofi was one of just two Afghan women invited to Moscow for informal meetings with the Taliban. 

Koofi has used her political might to champion the causes of women, from fighting to improve women’s living conditions in Afghan prisons to advocating for access to formal and non-formal education for women across Afghanistan. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009 and was Afghanistan’s first female deputy speaker of Parliament. “It’s important for women to enter the ‘no entry zone’… Places where it’s not convenient for a woman. We fight, we survive, we live,” she said, according to the Economic Times.