Afghanistan Archives – Page 11 of 11

Four in Congress Seek Aid for Afghan Women

By Chris Lombardi ● Uncategorized ● January 10, 2002

Two bipartisan efforts are underway to require all U.S. post-war aid to Afghanistan address women’s needs and include women in decision-making. Bush administration has concerns about provision of comprehensive reproductive health services.

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U.S. Feminists Voice Post-Taliban Concerns

By Siobhan Benet ● Uncategorized ● December 10, 2001

A Pakistani feminist cautions that U.S. women need to better understand the importance of religion to Muslim women, and others argue that U.S. women should push harder for their full human rights.

No Outrage: Moment of Tentative Joy Inside Afghanistan

By Womens Enews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● November 17, 2001

Afghan Woman Has Ten Lessons for Peacemakers

By Florence George Graves ● Politics ● November 16, 2001

As the Taliban flees Kabul, an Afghan woman at a Cambridge peace conference provides a series of guidelines for those involved in the peace process, which she insists should include women. She adds: Never underestimate veiled women.

U.S. Observer Says Afghan Rights Leader Was Slain

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Politics ● September 27, 2001

A Washington, D.C.-based women’s rights activist says she was in the Afghanistan outpost on Sept. 9 where terrorists killed an anti-Taliban leader. She claims a second man, one dedicated to women’s rights, also died in the attack.

Lawyers Argue Laws, Not Quran, Repress Women

By Frances A. McMorris ● Uncategorized ● March 11, 2001

According to women lawyers, the repression of women by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, fundamentalist clerics in Iran and other arch-conservative rulers is not based on true Quranic teaching, but on a distorted view of Islam by men in power.

Lacking Opium Money, Afghans Selling Daughters

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● February 26, 2001

(WOMENSENEWS)–The ban on growing opium poppies has left impoverished Afghan farmers destitute and they are trading, selling and marrying off daughters to repay their debts and buy food, according to U.N. and Taliban officials.

The ban imposed by the fundamentalist Taliban movement that controls most of the country has meant there was no harvest of the poppies, a major source of credit and income for farmers in the war-torn country. Coupled with a devastating drought, the ban has resulted in desperate choices, according to The Guardian in London.

Afghan Emissary Tries to Soften Image of Taleban

By Caryl Rivers ● Politics ● November 1, 2000

Feminists have placed the treatment of Afghan women on the agenda of the United Nations and human rights organizations worldwide, and now the tiniest crack has opened, indicating that the nation’s rulers may in fact be beginning to hear the roar.