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Women in Afghanistan
Afghan Women face 'daily danger'
The plight of Afghan Women has slightly improved since the fall of the Taleban, according to the Human Rights Organisation Amnesty International.
A draft constitution is expected to enshrine equal rights for both sexes.
There have been important changes for some Women since the fall of the fundamentalist Taleban regime nearly 4 years ago - thousands of girls are now attending school and many women have returned to work.
But according to Amnesty International, most Women ARE NOT being protected.
"It says the risk of rape is "very high" and girls as young as eight years old are being forced into marriage.
Women are not protected by the Criminal Justice System, the report says.
There is a great number of cases of: broken arms, broken legs and other injuries... Most Afghan Men are using Violence against them.
A Woman Doctor was interviewed by Amnesty and she says:
"During the war against the Taleban, World Leaders said the conflict would liberate Afghanistan's Women, yet many today are as oppressed as ever.
According to Kate Allen, Amenesty International's UK Director "World Leaders, including President Bush and US Secretary of State promised that Afghan Women's rights would 'not be negotiable" .
"But there is violence on a huge scale in families and the community, and the criminal justice system is still unable to protect Women."
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Reports of rape are hardly ever investigated, according to the report - and Afghanistan does not have the forensic tools required to do so.
Instead, says the report, Women are often subjected to crude "virginity tests".
Amnesty says that when Women do appear in the justice system, they are far likelier to be seen as culprits than victims.
Typically, they are punished for Adultery, Running away from one's family or in-laws and Having sex before marriage.
Amnesty gives a list of recommendations for Afghanistan - from Training more Women as Judges and Lawyers, to extending peacekeeping patrols outside Kabul.
The report comes days before the release of a draft constitution which activists hope will transform the way Women are treated in this Islamic State.
But even if new laws are ratified by the mainly male constitutional Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) that will consider the document, there is some doubt the measures will be enforced, correspondents say.
Much of Afghanistan is lawless and President Hamid Karzai's administration has " little control" outside the capital, Kabul.
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 10:04 GMT
Afghanistan at a glance: news.bbc.co.uk
Afghan Islamic Press - private - is based in Peshawar,
Pakistan www.pajhwok.com
The plight of Afghan Women has slightly improved since the fall of the Taleban, according to the Human Rights Organisation Amnesty International.
A draft constitution is expected to enshrine equal rights for both sexes.
There have been important changes for some Women since the fall of the fundamentalist Taleban regime nearly 4 years ago - thousands of girls are now attending school and many women have returned to work.
But according to Amnesty International, most Women ARE NOT being protected.
"It says the risk of rape is "very high" and girls as young as eight years old are being forced into marriage.
Women are not protected by the Criminal Justice System, the report says.
There is a great number of cases of: broken arms, broken legs and other injuries... Most Afghan Men are using Violence against them.
A Woman Doctor was interviewed by Amnesty and she says:
"During the war against the Taleban, World Leaders said the conflict would liberate Afghanistan's Women, yet many today are as oppressed as ever.
According to Kate Allen, Amenesty International's UK Director "World Leaders, including President Bush and US Secretary of State promised that Afghan Women's rights would 'not be negotiable" .
"But there is violence on a huge scale in families and the community, and the criminal justice system is still unable to protect Women."
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>>>>>> New Constitution Hopes >>>>>>>>>
Reports of rape are hardly ever investigated, according to the report - and Afghanistan does not have the forensic tools required to do so.
Instead, says the report, Women are often subjected to crude "virginity tests".
Amnesty says that when Women do appear in the justice system, they are far likelier to be seen as culprits than victims.
Typically, they are punished for Adultery, Running away from one's family or in-laws and Having sex before marriage.
Amnesty gives a list of recommendations for Afghanistan - from Training more Women as Judges and Lawyers, to extending peacekeeping patrols outside Kabul.
The report comes days before the release of a draft constitution which activists hope will transform the way Women are treated in this Islamic State.
But even if new laws are ratified by the mainly male constitutional Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) that will consider the document, there is some doubt the measures will be enforced, correspondents say.
Much of Afghanistan is lawless and President Hamid Karzai's administration has " little control" outside the capital, Kabul.
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 10:04 GMT
Afghanistan at a glance: news.bbc.co.uk
Afghan Islamic Press - private - is based in Peshawar,
Pakistan www.pajhwok.com
Comments on this journal
She?s always around there somewhere: in front of the homes still wrecked after they were destroyed more than a decade ago, next to the police station that was torched by a mob last year, in the gutter as an MP cruises by in his SUV.
That?s how life is here. Every corner has its own pitiful story and the old sorrow mixes with the new until it all becomes part of the same incessant sadness.
In December a man was shot in the center of Kabul, not far from the presidential palace. His attackers stole the $25,000 they knew he would be carrying and left his corpse to freeze in the evening air. A week earlier an infant spilt boiling water over himself at home. He was buried in a simple ceremony soon afterwards.
Peace is only relative in a country where if the bombs and bullets don't get you, something else will.
The winter brings death from poverty and desperation, spring adds intense violence to the mix.