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A woman's life in Afghanistan is one of the most shocking and devastating truths. It wasn't until September 11th 2001 that the world awoke to the relevance of women's issues to international peace and security. However, it's been two years since and the lives of Afghan women have improved only slightly. Harassment, violence, illiteracy, poverty and extreme repression continue to characterize reality for many afghan women.
"Under the Taliban, ultraconservative Islamic ideas combined with misogynistic and patriarchal tribal culture resulted in numerous edicts aimed at the control and subjugation of Afghan women" (Womenwarpeace.org). Women were denied all rights both civil and political. They were denied the right to free assembly, freedom of movement and the right to personal security.
According to a March 2003 International Crisis Group report, the civil war created by the Taliban produced 50,000 widows in Kabul alone. They were denied employment and as a result many had to...

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Title: Afghan Women And Their Horror
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1. In Love And War
   

   ... mocks as she incessantly refers to him as the "little horror". ... us all the Pashtun
   women and their beautiful songs ... ed. Songs of Love and War Afghan Women's Poetry ...

2. Analysis
   

   ... who travel to Kafiristan, in the Afghan mountains ... the Company benefitted materially
   yet lowered their moral and ... greedy, Dravot tries to marry a women who simply ...

3. My Forbidden Face
   

   ... the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group ... city, heaping inhumanities and
   indignities on women, who are ... public life and from leaving their homes without ...

4. Editorial Commentary
   

   ... in power -- free to break and butcher their victims, to ... And women's heads would still
   be getting nailed to ... a people under the boot (be they Afghan, Kuwaiti, or ...

5. A Critical Book Report On Lawrence Wright'S The Looming Tower.
   

   ... Wright identifies events such as the Afghan resistance to ... forces of resistance, spurred
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