Lina Tori Jan

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Lina Tori Jan is an Afghan woman raised in Afghanistan and is an asylum seeker in the United States. She works with the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and serves on the board of RefugePoint, an international NGO that supports refugees in more than 30 countries.

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Refugees disembark from a U.S. air force aircraft after an evacuation flight from Kabul at the Rota naval base in Rota, southern Spain, on August 31, 2021. (Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images)

Thousands of Afghan women risked their lives to help the US. Congress should do right by them

On International Women’s Day, Amb. Melanne Verveer and Lina Tori Jan are thinking about thousands of Afghan refugee women -- evacuated to the U.S. in August 2021 -- who may...

Cognoscenti

Mar 8, 2023