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Afghan law to be revised after pressure on women’s rights

AAN •

AFP/New Straits Times, 17 February 2014 In an article reporting that President Karzai has ordered amendments to a proposed law criticised for eroding women’s rights, the author quotes from AAN's recent dispatch on the matter, authored by Sari Kouvo and Wazhma Samandary: “Although there is important mobilisation against violence against women,  there is also a backlash,” […]

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A War with no End in Sight: The backlashes regarding Afghan women’s rights (amended)

Sari Kouvo •

A man cuts off the nose and lips of his wife. He does this because his wife refuses to give him her jewelry to buy drugs, and he does it in front of the couple’s children. This happened on 13 December in Herat, and rightly so, the incident received considerable media and civil society attention. […]

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Auftrag und Verantwortung? Die afghanische Lektion

Thomas Ruttig •

HR2 (German radio), 7 January 2014 Listen to an hour-long special (in German) on Afghanistan, featuring women activists, a former Afghan Bundeswehr employee, the band Kabul Dreams and AAN’s Thomas Ruttig.

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Blick auf Afghanistan 2013/2014

Thomas Ruttig •

Radio Eins (Germany), 27 December 2013 Listen to the audio of a year-ender interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, pointing to the meagre military and socio-economic balance of the Western intervention and looking forward to the 2014 presidential election (in German).

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Lack of cash and monitors add to Afghan election troubles

AAN •

Reuters, 1 December 2013 A good overview over shortcomings that stand in the way of orderly 2014 elections: "Organizers of Afghanistan's make-or-break presidential election next year say poor security, a shortage of monitors and funding holes are undermining their ability to safeguard the process from the widespread fraud that marred the last poll in 2009." Worryingly, […]

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