A place at the table : safeguarding women’s rights in Afghanistan / Oxfam.

Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: [Place of publication not identified] : [Oxfam], 2011.Description: 6 pages : color illustration ; 30 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • Pamphlet HQ1236.5. A3.
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Summary: Summary: “Ten years on from the start of the Western intervention in Afghanistan, Afghan women are facing an uncertain future. Women have strived for and made important gains since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, including in political participation and access to education, but these gains are fragile and reversible. The precarious situation for Afghan women is set against a backdrop of spreading insecurity across Afghanistan. Civilian casualties are in-creasing, with May 2011 the deadliest month of the war for civilians since 2007.2 As security deteriorates across the country, violence against women is also on the rise…”—(page 1).
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Pamphlet HQ1236.5.A3.P533 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000540921
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(153 Oxfam Briefing paper-summary)

Cover title.

“3 October 2011”.

“Women want peace but not at the cost of losing our freedom again / Noorjahan Akbar, Co-founder of young women for change”—summary page.

Summary: “Ten years on from the start of the Western intervention in Afghanistan, Afghan women are facing an uncertain future. Women have strived for and made important gains since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, including in political participation and access to education, but these gains are fragile and reversible. The precarious situation for Afghan women is set against a backdrop of spreading insecurity across Afghanistan. Civilian casualties are in-creasing, with May 2011 the deadliest month of the war for civilians since 2007.2 As security deteriorates across the country, violence against women is also on the rise…”—(page 1).

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