On the 10th of November, Aziza participated in the EU Youth, Peace & Security 2025 meetings. During one of the sessions, she suggested three priorities: Afghan youth must not be sidelined because of the country’s political crisis; peace cannot be reduced to the absence of conflict, but shall deliver equal benefits to Afghan women. Young Afghans need access to funding, resources, and climate-related decision-making without the persistent gender gap that keeps women at the margins.
In the small-group session hosted by the EEAS and the Anna Lindh Foundation, she and other young delegates examined where the EU’s YPS agenda is heading and how it must adapt.
In other discussions with the presence of senior EU officials and partners, such as the OSCE’s Young Women for Peace programme, she highlighted that any peace process that excludes women is flawed. From regional lessons in Central Asia to the EU’s own equality priorities, she called to invest in young women. Listen to them and include them.