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Women and girls may face an uncertain future in Afghanistan at the end of U.S. combat operations in December of this year, says a new report by Council on Foreign Relations. It makes several recommendations for preserving and extending the gains made by Afghan women and girls over the past decade.

Ahead of two major transition processes – the 2014 NATO withdrawal and the forthcoming presidential elections – in the country, there are increasing concerns on the future of women’s rights in Afghanistan. While a recent report by the World Economic Forum on global gender gap indicated a considerable improvement on decreasing the gap between genders in most of countries across …