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Location Community Events Events Program. Kerry Packer Civic Gallery. Join our Mailing List. Relive our Events. Annual Hawke Lecture series. The United States has "replaced the barbaric regime of the fundamentalist Taliban with the fundamentalist terrorist warlords who have bloody hands," Joya said.

In fact, the terrorists are empowered. Her campaign made her a celebrity in Afghanistan and propelled her into parliament in But it has also put her in grave danger and she says she has faced numerous attempts on her life. Like millions of fellow Afghans, Joya allowed herself to hope the invasion would help rid her country of warlords who had ravaged her country, paved the way for the Taliban to take over in and driven millions into exile.

Joya, who was a teenager living in a refugee camp in Pakistan in , was among the millions of refugees who returned to rebuild their lives and their country. She shouted up to the chairman presiding the meeting — which in itself was extraordinary. I want my people to be empowered by education. She says it is the actions of ordinary Afghans seeking a better life that inspire her — a woman in Bamyan province, a child on her shoulder, completing the test for university entrance, or an uneducated man in Uruzgan province taking his daughter to another village so she can attend school.

This is a prolonged risky struggle. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Recommended Who are Isis-K? Biden feared continued US military presence in Afghanistan would never end. This act betrayed human rights. The situation for women is as catastrophic today as it was before.

In most provinces, women's lives are hell. Forced marriages, child brides and domestic violence are very common. Self-immolations are at a peak.

She lives in a series of safe houses run by supporters, travels with bodyguards, wears a burqa and does not attend public meetingsliving in fear for her life.

When the fighters were close to collapse, she picked up the Afghan flag and led the men into battle herself.