19 August 2013

Karzai: a legacy of failure on Afghan women's rights?

.... Unfortunately, women have been marginalized in the decision making for the peace process and their petitions have been ignored by national leaders.

Except for a general statement that women’s rights will not be sacrificed in the name of peace, nothing concrete was taken to guard against the reversion of women’s status to the pre-2001 era.

President Hamid Karzai has been turning a deaf ear to the pleadings of women’s rights activists, claiming that he had already faced a lot of embarrassment in defending women’s rights would no longer do anything in this regard. [openDemocracy] Read more