Thursday, March 17, 2005

Equality in Afghanistan? Not if You're Female

In Afghanistan, equality for women is looking like a very distant possibility. The warlords, who were handed the keys to the nation by Bush because they promised to hunt for bin Laden, are actively buying and selling girls to make them 2nd or 3rd wives, and some girls are choosing to burn themselves alive rather than face the life of being a sold wife. Truth is, we knew about this in 2004, but nothing has been done to change the situation. Maybe because the majority of the funds and efforts put towards Afghanistan have been pushed towards Iraq, but Afghanistan is on the verge of starvation. The Chicago Tribune realizes that the plight of these women is equality on paper only. Check out this RAWA site... it is the only thing that gives me any kind of hope that people do care about the situation of females trapped in the middle of these wars that men devised and created at the expense of so very many innocent victims.
Posted by Tina :: 12:24 PM :: 2 Comments:

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