Mon. March 22, 2010
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 21, 2010
Norouz celebrations included trips to holy shrines, like that of this
Afghan woman and her son in
Kabul. By Abbas Djavadi Maryam had invited her two ...
Seattle Times
March 20, 2010
Many
Afghan women say they still feel voiceless eight years into a war-torn democracy, and they point to government plans to forge
peace with the
Taliban as ...
msnbc.com (blog)
March 20, 2010
Health experts say poverty, illiteracy, and a conservative society keep many
women in Afghanistan from getting direct access to
health care. ...
Dallas Morning News
March 20, 2010
11 turned a spotlight on the plight of
women in Afghanistan and the severe repression which was part of their daily lives," said Laura Bush. "
Afghan women ...
Dallas Morning News
March 19, 2010
11 turned a spotlight on the plight of
women in Afghanistan and the severe repression which was part of their daily lives," said Laura Bush. "
Afghan women ...
Common Dreams (press release)
March 19, 2010
The promise to improve
Afghan women's lives was among the goals expressed after the fall of the
Taliban. Reports from our colleagues in
Afghanistan suggest ...
Washington Post (blog)
March 19, 2010
President Hamid Karzai, who already sold out
Afghan women last August by agreeing to a new law that permits men to decide whether their wives can leave the ...
CBS 11
March 19, 2010
George W. Bush appeared at Southern Methodist University on March 19, 2010 to discuss the plight of
women in Afghanistan. She's thousands of miles away from ...
MiamiHerald.com
March 19, 2010
LOS ANGELES -- If your impression of an Afghan woman is of a shapeless, frightened form engulfed in yards of heat-trapping fabric, ...
Casper Star-Tribune Online
March 18, 2010
Today, Neshiem sells embroidered goods made by
Afghan women. While she mainly
markets the products in
Montana, "I am always looking for
retailers," she said ...
CNN (blog)
March 18, 2010
"Bibi Aisha is only one example of thousands of girls and women in Afghanistan and throughout the world who are treated this way - who suffer abuses like ...
Northwest Missourian
March 18, 2010
The plight of the Afghan woman is not a new one, thanks to the National Geographic photograph of the hard-eyed 'Afghan Girl' during the Soviet invasion, ...
New York Times
March 17, 2010
A spokesman for the
British embassy in Kabul said that an
Afghan woman and a British man were lightly wounded in the attack on the aid group, ...
Brunswickian
March 17, 2010
The fourth annual variety show for the Revolutionary Association of
women in Afghanistan, sponsored by the Fredericton
peace Coalition, the NB-RebELLEs, ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 16, 2010
The
Washington Post's Karin Brulliard reports that many
Afghan women fear that
Kabul's plan to bring the
Taliban back into Afghan national politics would be ...
Dallas Morning News
March 16, 2010
If your impression of an Afghan woman is of a shapeless, frightened form engulfed in yards of heat-trapping fabric, you haven't met Shafiqa Quraishi. ...
Party for Socialism and Liberation
March 16, 2010
According to Bush, the war would bring freedom to
Afghan women from the tyranny of
Taliban rule. At that time, the
Feminist Majority even circulated a ...
Merinews
March 16, 2010
An
Afghan woman needs Gynaec care at
the US facility run by the
US Marines. She is rather reluctant to seek medical aid but she needs it badly. ...
Valley Advocate
March 16, 2010
The fallen Afghan woman loses her life in an 'honor killing' unofficially condoned to preserve the morality of women. No one knows how many girls and women, ...
Monday Morning
March 16, 2010
It is in these areas, particularly
Helmand and neighboring
Kandahar, that the
Taliban are strongest and where the plight of
Afghan women can be harshest. ...
NewsOK.com
March 16, 2010
Neese is a member of the council, a public-
private partnership created in 2002 to help
Afghan women and
children. Neese said former first lady Laura Bush, ...
msnbc.com
March 15, 2010
But many
Afghan women say they still feel voiceless eight years into a war-torn democracy, and they point to government plans to forge
peace with the ...
Mail Tribune
March 15, 2010
If your impression of an Afghan woman is of a shapeless, frightened form engulfed in yards of heat-trapping fabric, you haven't met Shafiqa Quraishi. ...
New York Times
March 15, 2010
But Samira Hamidi, country director for the advocacy group
Afghan women's Network, said she feared that security problems, and a lack of
education and ...
Washington Post
March 15, 2010
But many
Afghan women say they still feel voiceless eight years into a war-torn democracy, and they point to government plans to forge
peace with the ...
The AtlanticWire (blog)
March 15, 2010
... on Empowering
Afghan women Writing in The
Washington Post, Parker offers an in-depth look at the changing roles available to
women in Afghanistan. ...
Systems
March 15, 2010
Two
Afghan women and two
children were also injured when several rounds struck an Afghan civilian house near the base. The injured civilians were medically ...
Waterloo Record
March 15, 2010
Both women are with the
Afghan women's Association. The women are planning a fundraiser to raise
money so that they can rent a ...
BBC News
March 15, 2010
The burqa is the mesh covered gown that
women in Afghanistan wear. In
Europe, the Arab-style niqab is favoured, which is the piece of material drawn across ...
Washington Post (blog)
March 15, 2010
They have brought in a
Muslim chaplain to pray with local mullahs and deployed teams of female Marines to reach out to
Afghan women. ...
Washington Post
March 14, 2010
They have brought in a
Muslim chaplain to pray with local mullahs and deployed teams of female Marines to reach out to
Afghan women. ...
Sun-Sentinel
March 13, 2010
There's always a full house at the
think tank lectures with Al and Marilyn Biegel, and tonight she's talking about
women in Afghanistan and he's talking ...
National
March 13, 2010
Shirin Gul, who set herself on fire, recovers at a hospital in
Herat. Chris Sands / The National HERAT // With the make-up still just about visible around ...
US Department of State
March 13, 2010
As I said in
London in January at the International Conference on
Afghanistan, the
women of Afghanistan have to be involved at every step in securing and ...
Washington Post
March 13, 2010
If your impression of an Afghan woman is of a shapeless, frightened form engulfed in yards of heat-trapping fabric, you haven't met ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 12, 2010
11:00 AM ET --
Afghan women in secret shelters. ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer visited a secret women's shelter in
Afghanistan, where she saw "women who were ...
ABC News
March 12, 2010
It is one of a string of shelters and counseling centers that opened in 2007 and have since helped about 1500 Afghan women escape beatings and abuse that ...
Voice of America
March 10, 2010
Photo: AP
Afghan women attend at a gathering to mark International Women's Day in
Kabul, Afghanistan on 7 Mar 2010. "
institutions of justice ... are often ...
NPR (blog)
March 10, 2010
... also on Morning Edition -- "
Afghan women Wary Of Overtures To
Taliban": "Taliban rule was a dark period for
women in Afghanistan, and they want to make ...
New York Magazine
March 10, 2010
No, Rather's "watermelon" remark isn't as important as the plight of women in Afghanistan, but luckily, it doesn't have to be. Simply put, the Internet is ...
