“We have the promises of the world” : women’s rights in Afghanistan / cover design by Rafael Jimenez.
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TextLanguage: Publication details: [New York] : Human Rights Watch, c2009.Description: 16 p. : map ; 30 cmISBN: - 1564325741
- Pamphlet HQ 1236.5 .A3 .J56 /2009/ + /PDF/(702KB)
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Cover title.
“December 2009”.
Includes bibliographical references.
“Human Rights Watch”—at head of title.
Contents: Map of Afghanistan—I. Summary—II. Methodology—III. Attacks on women in public life—IV. Sexual violence—V. Forced and child marriage—VI. Guilty on arrival : women’s access to justice—VIII. Girls’ secondary school education—IX. Government and donor commitments and actions on women’s rights—X. Recommendations—XI. Acknowledgements.
Summary: “After the fall of the Taliban everyone wanted to come and work for women’s rights, they were proud to say they were here to help Afghan women. Slowly, slowly this disappeared. Maybe the international community saw that we had two or three women in the cabinet, and thought, it’s ok, now they have their rights. But we have lost everything, from those cabinet positions to the donor attention. Women are not a priority for our won government or the international community. We’ve been forgotten…”—(p. 2).