1.0 link 192243 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zainab-salbi/a-call-to-action-defend-w_b_192243.html Throughout Afghanistan's history, negotiations over women's status and
rights in Afghan society have occurred largely in the context of political
struggles to take power or to hold on to power. We can see from President
Karzai's recent authorization of the Shiite Personal Status Law--a move
pleasing to a conservative minority with whom he was unpopular--that for
women, very little has changed about this tradition in Afghanistan. The
law is currently under review by the state's Ministry of Justice, but
remains...

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