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A New Kind of Afghan Fighter -- Enter the Women

Shannon Galpin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Human Rights, Gender Equity, Freedom, Meena Keshwar Kamal, Rawa, Afghanistan Women's Rights, Women's Rights, Afghanistan Government, Impact News
Shannon Galpin

Sabrina Sagheb, a 25-year-old parliamentary candidate, is campaigning on a platform of liberal reform and gender equality with a campaign poster that has raised more than a few eyebrows across Kabul.

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The Most Famous Woman in Afghanistan

Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Malalai Joya, Afghan Warlords, Obama, Cia Afghan Warlords, Afghanistan War, A Woman Among Warlords, Obama-US-Troops-Afghanistan, Jodie Evans, Drug Lords, Codepink, Afghan Occupation, The New Great Game, Rawa, Impact News
Vivien Lesnik Weisman

Malalai Joya is the one-time youngest member of Parliament who has survived four assassination attempts on her life and routinely lambastes the Taliban, the Karzai government and President Obama.

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Laura Dean

Women's Groups Split By Afghanistan Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Dean | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Feminist Majority, Taliban, Afghan Women's Mission, Obama Afghanistan, Afghan Women, Feminists Afghanistan, Rawa, Politics News

The Feminist Majority Foundation and the Afghan Women's Mission are locked in a bitter controversy over what's best for the women of Afghanistan. The...

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Bombs will kill women in Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Humanitarian, Afghan WomenÂ’'s Mission, Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald, Rethink Afghanistan, Bombs, Rawa, Women's Rights, Brave New Foundation, Brave New Films, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

Self immolation is a method of suicide by lighting oneself on fire and has reached epidemic levels amongst women in Afghanistan.

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