Escape from Kabul: The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind

Across twenty years of US-backed government, Afghan women obtained legal degrees, became judges, and set out to transform their country-tackling corruption, challenging traditional gender norms, and reducing horrifying levels of violence against women and children. These educated and powerful women led the mission to build Afghanistan as a modern democracy that respected the rule of law and human rights. Their work, however, posed an existential threat to everything the Taliban believed in-...