Posts Tagged ‘Mary Akrami’

Karzai Government Once Again Ignores Women of Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 1 February 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Article 132, civil society, Hamid Karzai, loya jirga, Malalai Joya, Mary Akrami, Orzala Nemat, Shia Family Law, taliban, UN Dispatch with no comments

As the United Nations and Afghanistan make preparations to negotiate with the Taliban, one group often seen as an after-thought by the Administration of Hamid Karzai once again finds themselves in the periphery: the women of Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai, who had to make it a point to promise more female cabinet members, after his supporters [...]