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Sarah Chayes on real life in Afghanistan; Nobelist Shirin Ebadi rousted before UDHR celebration; Ingrid Betancourt on captivity and freedom

By Womens Voices for Change
Kandahar candid: Veteran reporter Sarah Chayes left NPR in 2002 to live and work full-time in Kandahar, Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban government. After three years of rebuilding homes and working with a dairy collective, she set up the Arghand co-op, which produces hand-made silks, soaps, and body oils to be sold in the US and Canada. Arghand…
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