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News on Afghanistan
Read below to learn of the struggles of Afghanistan's women and children
"A voice of hope for Afhanistan's women"
By: Frud Bezhan
For the women of Afghanistan, it is yet another brutal message — that death awaits those who choose a public life.
Sitara Achakzai — a women's rights campaigner — was gunned down in the streets of Kandahar on Sunday.
She is among several high-profile women the Taliban have assassinated in recent years. But it is merely the most public example of the extreme violence women face in this embattled country, where rape and murder are widespread.... read more
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"Plight of Afghan women prompts fresh debate"
By: Sandra Martin
Farah Mohamed can't forget the searing images of women protesters in the dusty streets of Kabul, surrounded by angry men with contorted faces and raised fists.
“Whores!”
“Dogs!”
“Death to the slaves of the Christians!”
That scene, scrolling across television screens around the world earlier this week, struck her – and scores of other women – like a physical assault: What sort of men would pelt women with rocks for protesting a law that legalized rape?... read more
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"Angry Afghans protest over new marriage law"
By: Heidi Vogt
A group of some 1,000 Afghans swarmed a demonstration of 300 women protesting against a new conservative marriage law on Wednesday. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart.
The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse — a clause that critics say legalizes marital rape. It also regulates when and for what reasons a wife may leave her home alone... read more
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"Drug Addiction, and Misery, Increase In Afghanistan"
By: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
A growing number of Afghans — including children — are escaping the pain of war and poverty by using opium or heroin, for as little as a dollar a day.
A United Nations survey begun this month is widely expected to show that at least 1 in 12 people in Afghanistan abuses drugs — double the number in the last survey four years ago.
Experts say that the alarming trend is not being addressed by the Afghan government and its international partners, even though most officials acknowledge that the drug scourge threatens lasting stability in Afghanistan... read more
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"Taliban publicly executed a man and girl for eloping"
Taliban militants publicly executed a man and girl on Monday for eloping when she was already engaged to marry someone else, an official said, in a sign of the grip the Islamists have over parts of Afghanistan. Hashim Noorzai, head of Khash Rud district in southwestern Nimruz province, said the two were executed by gunshots in front of a crowd of villagers.
He said he had no details on how the Taliban had come to be involved in passing judgment on them but that much of the mainly desert district was under control of the militants...read more
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All articles © The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, April 2009
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