Year-end review 2014: Women's issues

Updated: 2014-12-30 08:47

(Agencies)

Colonel Jamila Bayaaz talks on the phone at her office before an interview in Kabul in this January 15, 2014 file photo. The Afghan policewoman took charge of a district in the capital Kabul that week, an unusual appointment in a country where women have few rights that her bosses gave her four bodyguards. Bayaaz, who joined the force more than 30 years ago, heads one of Kabul's busiest shopping districts. [Photo/Agencies]