They said that the mood was transformed, and where five or eight years ago, they would have been spat at, insulted or abused for daring to be part of the process, there they were sitting with people such as Abdul Rabb Rasul Sayyaf who is, frankly, a man with views almost identical to the Taliban when it comes to gender and raising points such as women need to be in the negotiating process itself, and they were not being laughed out of the room.
Et maintenant, elles s'assoyaient avec des gens comme Abdul Rabb Rasul Sayyaf, dont les points de vue à l'égard des sexes sont, bien franchement, presque identiques à ceux des talibans, et elles pouvaient faire valoir des points comme la nécessité de permettre aux femmes de participer au processus des négociations; personne ne s'est moqué d'elles.
