Activists: Afghan women no better off
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Chicago Tribune - Human-rights organizations criticized the Bush administration Wednesday, saying in the three years since the Taliban was ousted from most of Afghanistan, the U.S. has not fulfilled promises of safety, freedom, education and health care for Afghan women.
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Afghan women in New York have had to strike a balance growing up in a comparatively freewheeling society with parents who have held tight to their Afghan conventions.
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On Saturday, the Afghan people took another step toward lasting peace and prosperity while dealing a blow to terrorism. Afghan women and men turned out in massive numbers to participate in
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Women who say they were sexually assaulted in Iraq by co-workers have found themselves unable to seek justice.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban guerrillas reiterated on Wednesday that they had nothing to do with the kidnapping of three UN workers and said they opposed the use of women as hostages for the release of prisoners.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Gunmen on a motorbike yesterday killed an Afghan women's rights activist who ran an underground school for girls during the Taliban's rule -- the latest victim of increasingly brazen militants targeting government officials and schools.
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Regional and factional leaders pose as much of a threat to Afghanistan&#39;s elections as a Taliban insurgency, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
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KABUL -- Clutching scarves nervously around their faces, the women whispered details of Taliban atrocities taking place in their native Helmand province: A translator's body found in a sack, carved into pieces. A police officer taken hostage, blinded and garroted with wire. A woman shot and hanged...
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Before Shugofa Beheshti decides who to vote for in Afghanistan's Oct. 9 presidential election, she wants to hear what the candidates have to say.
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and say they oppose the use of women as hostages for the release of prisoners. prisoners,&quot; said Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi on Wednesday.
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Regional and factional leaders pose as  much of a threat to Afghanistan's elections as a Taliban  insurgency, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
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Security forces outnumbered demonstrators at a tiny gathering yesterday afternoon commemorating International Women's Day, which was squelched by an aggressive campaign of detentions in preceding days. The days surrounding Women's Day have traditionally been marked by boisterous street demonstrations by human rights activists demanding an end to Islamic laws condemned as sexist and discriminatory. About 50 demonstrators ...
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Wendy Wright, senior policy director of Concerned Women for America, said, &quot;When women&#39;s lives are at stake, this is unacceptable.
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Pakistani women's activists deplored   on Tuesday a government decision to give in to religious   conservatives opposed to the amendment of Islamic laws dealing   with rape and adultery.
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The participation of Chechen women in suicide attacks reflects the radicalization of a war that has turned increasingly nihilistic.
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A group of Western and Afghan aid organizations in Afghanistan has launched a blistering attack on foreign troops for not doing more to prevent civilian deaths in their hunt for Taliban fighters and other insurgents.
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MASOODA Jalal has been clocking up some high mileage on the campaign trail for Afghanistanâs presidential election. The only woman candidate to stand in the October 9 vote, Jalal