article_snippet: First of all, when we are talking about women's rights, we see that we have succeeded; people will not tolerate what people tolerated a decade ago," said Nargis Nehan, founder and executive director of Equality for Peace and Democracy, a non-governmental organization created to promote "a culture of peace, tolerance, transparency and accountability.
article_snippet: She was speaking last Tuesday at a roundtable at Georgetown University's Institute for Women, Peace and Security, organized around the visit by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.  
article_snippet: If this was the Afghanistan of a decade before and this would have happened, a small group of Afghan women would have come to the streets to be seeking justice.  
article_snippet: Nehan explained that the younger generation, a progressive generation, wants to have a peaceful Afghanistan.
article_snippet: It never (before) happened to women at this level; this was really one of the shocking acts of violence publicly within their capital," said Sima Samar, head of the Afghan Human Rights Commission, at the Georgetown panel.  
article_snippet: Women have gained a great deal in the roughly 13 years since the Taliban was ousted from power.  
article_snippet: Women sit in Parliament and work as entrepreneurs, teachers and civil society advocates.
article_snippet: Indeed, Samar and other human rights advocates and civil society leaders who have played a role in post-Taliban Afghanistan say Samar and other human rights advocates and civil society leaders who have played a role in post-Taliban Afghanistan are determined that Farkhunda's death will not be in vain.
article_snippet: Samar and other human rights advocates and civil society leaders who have played a role in post-Taliban Afghanistan say Samar and other human rights advocates and civil society leaders who have played a role in post-Taliban Afghanistan will continue to fight to keep her case in the spotlight and to see justice served.
article_snippet: Samar and other human rights advocates and civil society leaders who have played a role in post-Taliban Afghanistan commitment to seeking public justice for a public horror may well be one of the most powerful signals yet of an Afghanistan that is indeed a very different nation than it was only a decade ago.