{"id":1513,"date":"2026-09-27T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2026-09-27T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:37:47","slug":"swedish-foreign-minister-afghan-women-once-led-the-fight-for-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/09\/27\/swedish-foreign-minister-afghan-women-once-led-the-fight-for-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Foreign Minister: Afghan Women Once Led the Fight for Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bareen Media &#8211; Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer <\/strong>Stenerg\u00e5rd<strong> has highlighted the history of Afghan women\u2019s struggle for equality, saying Afghan women gained the right to vote around the same period as women in Sweden.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, Stenergard said the contrast between women\u2019s freedoms in Afghanistan and Sweden more than a century later is both striking and deeply concerning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She described the situation as a reminder that progress on women\u2019s rights cannot be taken for granted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRights that have once been achieved can be lost,\u201d Stenergard said, stressing the need to protect progress on gender equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the rights and freedoms available to women in Afghanistan and Sweden are sharply different. UN reporting has documented restrictions imposed on Afghan women and girls that affect their access to education, employment and participation in public life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stenergard\u2019s remarks highlighted the dramatic reversal in Afghanistan, where women who once participated in public and political life now face extensive restrictions under Taliban rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bareen Media &#8211; Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenerg\u00e5rd has highlighted the history of Afghan women\u2019s struggle for equality, saying Afghan women gained the right to vote around the same period as women in Sweden. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, Stenergard said the contrast between women\u2019s freedoms in Afghanistan and Sweden more than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,45,29],"tags":[76,207,206,196],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-womens-rights","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-gender-equality","tag-sweden","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}