Badass women voters in Afghanistan

Reuters…
Female civic educators have been dispatched to provincial areas of Afghanistan to promote awareness of the forthcoming parliamentary elections among women, officials at the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) announced on Thursday in the capital, Kabul.
“We have to use all possible means to deliver election information to women in rural areas where the majority of women are illiterate,” Nafisa Kohistani a MoWA public information officer said. Cultural sensitivities and discrimination against women are likely to discourage female involvement in the historic poll slated for 18 September, observers say.
Oftentimes, lack of education does in fact keep potential voters out of the loop, as we have seen in the States as well. This project plans to reach 6.9 million people.

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