Monday, January 14, 2013

We don't want our burqas back: women in Afghanistan on the Taliban's return - Guardian

That year US secretary of state Colin Powell declared that restoring women's human rights would "not be negotiable". Prime minister Tony Blair promised: "The conflict will not be the end. We will not walk away, as the outside world has done so many times before." Now, with the withdrawal of international forces and their caravan of international agencies, consultants and contractors looming in 2014, there is evidence that Afghan women have seen very few of the promised changes and are terrified of the future.- We don't want our burqas back: women in Afghanistan on the Taliban's return

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