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International Women's Forum conference concludes
October 10, 2009 | Xinhua 
Shamim Jawad, one of the IWF intentional fellows, from Afghanistan, told Xinhua that under the help of the international community and the Afghanistan government, Afghan women came a long way in the past eight years and "have achieved many milestones."
"About 5.6 million children went back to schools, 40 percent of them are girls. That is a big achievement, because girls were not permitted to go to school during the Taliban period," said Ms. Jawad, Founder and President of Ayenda (means "Future") Foundation, a non-profit Afghan Children Initiative based in Washington, the United States...
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