The EU has invested hundreds of thousands of euros and top-level diplomatic energy into trying to get more women involved in this weekend's elections in Afghanistan.
A significant part of the EU's total €35 million election-support budget was spent on training up to 6,000 women security officers to search fellow women voters as they enter gender-segregated polling stations on Saturday (17 September). A chunk of the budget was already spent on supporting last year's poll, which was decla...
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