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Saving Afghan Women? Afghan Women: Used by the Taliban, Used by Us "Saving" Afghan Women - warning, contains some graphic language Only Women Will Guarantee Women's Rights Humanitarian "Feminism" from Above as a Form of Colonial Control
TIME's Epic Distortion of the Plight of Women in Afghanistan
Wikileaks: CIA recommends France use Afghan women's rights to boost war Also, if you have access to academic articles, please consider the following articles: “Saving Brown Women.” by Cooke, Miriam. “Women: The Canary in the Mine.” by Schweitzer, Ivy. [Both of the above are complemented by the entire Autumn 2002 issue of S I G N S]
News Articles In case you have not yet seen them, these articles are available on our website: After the Taliban, women still suffer Kidnappings and wife beatings go on, three years after the liberation of Afghans from the Taliban regime The Taliban Aren't Gone, Women Haven't Been Liberated - Afghanistan Reconsidered Afghan women seek death by fire Increasing numbers of Afghan women are committing suicide by setting fire to themselves to escape difficult lives, according to NGOs based in the country. Kola Odetola: Islam, Sex And The Western Left While differing in their responses to the west’s war on terror, read non compliant Muslim nations, right wingers, liberals and a lot of silent leftists share in varying degrees a unity in support of one its most vociferously avowed aims – the liberation of the Islamic world’s women. Death by burning: the only escape for desperate Afghan women James Astill in Kabul finds a disturbing rise in suicides despite the fall of the misogynist Taliban... Afghanistan's constitution gives equal rights to men and women. But despite an increase in the number of girls in school, most Afghan women enjoy no more rights than they did under the Taliban. Most of the country is not controlled by the government but by warlords as misogynistic as the Taliban." 'We
are just watching things get worse' When
Britain and America went into Afghanistan in 2001, they claimed that
the liberation of the country's burka-shrouded women was one of their
top priorities. So did they deliver? Five years on, Natasha Walter visits
Kabul - and is shocked by what she discovers
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