Feminist Peace Network

Here is yet another report documenting the dire conditions being endured by women in Afghanistan.  In the last 10 months more than 20 women and girls have committed suicide, “most of them had been handed over to dealers instead of drugs, or to settle family disputes,” according to Fawzia Ulomi, head of the women’s affairs department in Helmand Province. and then there is this:

“Afghanistan and its female population are at the bottom of the global poverty scale. The country is the fourth lowest in the world for living standards and third lowest in gender disparities, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) stated in August 2006.”

And this is what we call liberation?

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