The Long, Long Struggle for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

Afghanistan, 2009:

In April of this year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai threw his support behind an astonishing and repressive law that would make it illegal for women of the Shi’i minority (approximately 10 percent of the population) to refuse their husbands’ sexual advances and would require, among other things, that women get their husbands’ permission even to step outside of their homes. (articolul complet aici)

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