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What a Difference a War Makes for Women in Afghanistan

All those dead Taliban fighters are probably going to be spinning in their graves with stuff like this happening in Afghanistan, The [voter registration] process started last December and, so far, around 22 percent of the 320,770 Afghans who signed … Continue reading

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Woman Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Death in Pakistan

Nigerian citizen Osfatu Bose Oweiye was sentenced to death in Pakistan in May after being convicted of heading up a heroin smuggling ring in that country. Oweiye was arrested in 1999 in connection with a drug bust that turned up … Continue reading

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Afghan Women Training for Role in Information Technology

What a difference a couple of years and a war makes. Under the Taliban, women in Afghanistan could not work outside the home and the Internet was banned because of all the immoral content it carried. Now, women in Afghanistan … Continue reading

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Raising Questions about RAWA

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, a group called the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) received a lot of media coverage. With its rhetoric about freeing Afghanistan’s women from oppression, its smuggled videotapes of atrocities against women, and … Continue reading

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Steinem’s Taliban Hypocrisy

Gloria Steinem this week provided an excellent example of the idiocy of much of contemporary feminism when she revealed that it is not so much whether or not women are spared from violence and oppression, but rather the key point … Continue reading

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Are Bikinis Just as Bad as Burkas?

In an op-ed for the Boston Globe historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg and women’s health advocate Jacquelyn Jackson argue that while women in Afghanistan are celebrating the demise of the Taliban by removing their burkas, women in the United States have … Continue reading

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Sisterhood is Powerful — Unless You Happen to be Stuck in Afghanistan

At the end of October, the Village Voice ran an interesting article by Sharon Lerner examining feminist attitudes toward the war against Afghanistan. In hindsight some of the comments look downright silly, but women’s rights advocate Hibaaq Osman’s take on … Continue reading

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Feminists and the War Against the Taliban

In an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, Amy Holmes wonders why the National Organization for Women seems to be largely ignoring the United States’ war against the Taliban. Holmes notes that NOW did put out a press release a … Continue reading

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Statues vs. Women

A couple weeks ago the Taliban, which controls about 80 percent of Afghanistan, announced that it would begin destroying statues and other artwork that were devoted to religions other than Islam. As the Taliban followed through on its promise, the … Continue reading

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Women in Afghanistan

The other day I posted about the ongoing problems women face in Afghanistan. An excellent on-line source for information on the Taleban is the Revolutionary Assocation of the Women of Afghanistan which includes information on atrocities committed against women in … Continue reading

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