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QALA CHA, Afghanistan — Shershad Muhammad almost didn’t get to vote. |
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Posted in Afghan Life, Articles on Apr 16th, 2009
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Hundreds in Kabul staged a rare rally Wednesday, defying counterprotesters’ stones and insults. |
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Posted in Blog on Apr 13th, 2009
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Just as the world’s eyes are turning towards Afghanistan once again, a few conservative Afghan lawmakers are trying to pass a law that would, amongst other things, legalize marital rape, prohibit women from leaving the home without permission, deny them the right of inheritance, force a woman to “preen for her husband as and when [...] |
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Posted in Afghan Life, Articles on Mar 8th, 2009
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KABUL, Mar 9 (IPS) - Whenever lawmaker Fatima Nazari rose to speak, she says the parliament’s chair snubbed her. Whenever one of her female colleagues made a suggestion, it was brushed aside. Sometimes certain notorious warlords would speak multiple times before a female member of parliament (MP) could speak once. |
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