Really Want to Help Afghans? Help the Women!


	Really Want to Help Afghans? Help the Women!

nedhamson1

7-8-2009 8:35 AM

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afghanistan, feminism, law, rape

nedhamson1 says:

It is good that there is a call for taking rape more seriously but tougher laws are seldom successful unless authorities are willing to enforce them. In neighboring Pakistan, it took one woman years to get her attackers charged - then they were freed and now being charged again. Hers was not an unusual case.

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