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The EU police mission in Afghanistan. Taliban activities are feared to increase around the poll on Saturday (Photo: Council of European Union)

EU backs women in Afghanistan elections

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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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

The EU police mission in Afghanistan. Taliban activities are feared to increase around the poll on Saturday (Photo: Council of European Union)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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