<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/beb27ff3-98b6-4d05-93a0-bee0d0eb2e7e/6E8D4FA2-801C-4B8F-BE7C-691D55DBB8CF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape"><DIV id="main-article-info"> <H1>Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights</H1> <P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Rehashed legislation allows husbands to deny wives food if they fail to obey sexual demands</p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape"><UL class="article-attributes"> <LI class="byline"> <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{Jon Boone}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jon-boone">Jon Boone</A> in Kandahar </LI> <LI class="publication"> <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/">guardian.co.uk</A>, Friday 14 August 2009 14.17 BST </LI> <LI class="history"><A href="#history-byline" id="historylink-byline" class="rollover historylink">Article history</A></LI></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/44B87BDE-63A9-4B14-B700-118D32F22A69" alt="Women in Islamic dress, wearing the burka, Afghanistan" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape"><P><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan">Afghanistan</A> has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands' sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had promised to review.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape"><P>The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape"><P>"It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying 'blood money' to a girl who was injured when he raped her," the US charity Human Rights Watch said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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