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Afghan women law students set to return; one is chosen for commencement ... - 89.3 KPCC
Tue, 21 May 2013 13:13:18 GMT -

Afghan women law students set to return; one is chosen for commencement ...
89.3 KPCC
The words of Munira Akhunzada echoed off the football stadium walls, louder than the soft-spoken young Afghan woman has ever spoken. “The person who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare,” she said. “This is the challenge ...

Incarcerating Afghan women for 'moral crimes is unjust says Human Rights Watch - WNN - Women News Network
Thu, 23 May 2013 22:59:23 GMT -

WNN - Women News Network

Incarcerating Afghan women for 'moral crimes is unjust says Human Rights Watch
WNN - Women News Network
Statistics from Afghanistan's Interior Ministry indicate that the number of women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes” in Afghanistan had risen to about 600 in May 2013 from 400 in October 2011 – a 50 percent increase in a year and a half. Since ...
Afghan Parliament: It's Against Sharia Law to Outlaw Beating WomenCare2.com (blog)

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Law Protecting Afghanistan Women Blocked By Conservatives - Huffington Post
Sat, 18 May 2013 12:42:09 GMT -

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Law Protecting Afghanistan Women Blocked By Conservatives
Huffington Post
More freedoms for women are one of the most visible – and symbolic – changes in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led campaign that toppled the Taliban regime. While in power, the Taliban imposed a strict interpretation of Islam that put severe curbs on ...
Worrying Signs Afghan Women's Rights Will Slip After US DepartureThe Atlantic
Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive women's lawYahoo! News
Women's rights legislation is stymied in AfghanistanBoston Globe
WNN - Women News Network -Onislam.net
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Afghanistan After America: Severely Hazardous to Women and Children - TakePart
Tue, 21 May 2013 19:12:20 GMT -

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Afghanistan After America: Severely Hazardous to Women and Children
TakePart
An Afghan woman wearing a burqa holds her child as she walks along a street on the outskirts of Kabul—under full protection of U.S.-allied forces. (Photo: Omar Sobhani/Reuters). Last February, on the eve of her departure from the Obama administration, ...
Jailing of Afghan women rises sharplyPress Herald
Sharp rise in number Afghan women in prison for "moral crimes"Reuters AlertNet
Afghanistan must make efforts to ratify the law to protect womenspyghana.com
KMBZ -Stars and Stripes -Telegraph.co.uk
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Effort to Strengthen an Afghan Law on Women May Backfire - New York Times
Sat, 18 May 2013 19:10:28 GMT -

Effort to Strengthen an Afghan Law on Women May Backfire
New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Even with some legal protections in place, Afghan women, and sometimes even little girls, can be sold to pay family debts. In the country's vast rural areas, just talking to a man who is not a close relative can be punishable by ...

Afghan Women's Cycling Team Is Working All Gears - Green Prophet
Mon, 20 May 2013 13:40:39 GMT -

Green Prophet

Afghan Women's Cycling Team Is Working All Gears
Green Prophet
Bike riding is taboo for Afghan women, considered a marker of promiscuity and ranking on the cultural offenses index somewhere between driving and being spotted with an unrelated man. That belief eliminates a sustainable means of travel and undermines ...

Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights - KSN-TV
Sat, 18 May 2013 22:03:43 GMT -

Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights
KSN-TV
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2012 file photo, an Afghan woman harvests wheat on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday, May 18, 2013 that aims to protect women's freedoms, ...

Afghan woman recounts how US soldier killed her husband in rampage - Vancouver Sun
Thu, 16 May 2013 19:47:26 GMT -

Vancouver Sun

Afghan woman recounts how US soldier killed her husband in rampage
Vancouver Sun
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family sometime ...

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Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete - CNN
Fri, 10 May 2013 15:40:24 GMT -

Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete
CNN
Frederick, Maryland (CNN) -- In front of a mirror, Aesha Mohammadzai sees what is possible. There, in the center of her face, is a nearly complete piece of herself -- a piece she's been missing since the day she was mutilated nearly four years ago.

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Conservative Afghan lawmakers block legislation protecting women's rights - Newser
Sat, 18 May 2013 14:11:43 GMT -

Conservative Afghan lawmakers block legislation protecting women's rights
Newser
FILE - In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 file photo, an Afghan woman peers through the the eye slit of her burqa as she waits to try on a new burqa in shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. Conservative... (Associated Press) ...

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