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Women Raise Their Voices On The Walls Of Afghanistan

With change not expected to come from a ballot box, female graffiti artists in Afghanistan take a stand with cans of spraypaint.

With women making up 34 percent of voters in the Afghanistan presidential election held earlier this month, the celebration of a new era for Afghan women has been dominating the headlines of European and American media. But the fight for women’s rights is far from over in Afghanistan,

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Pina Sadar

Pina Sadar is a freelance journalist and doctoral researcher in anthropology at Durham University working on Muslim women and veiling. She is active in various civil society initiatives and has been involved in projects with a number of international organizations including European Youth Press and Deutsche Welle, as well as institutions such as the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the United Nations.

Afghan Women Lawmakers Fight For Rights

Today’s Afghan woman has choices she didn’t have during the Taliban rule that lasted from the mid-1990s to 2001 — like running for parliament.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, women rarely left their home. When they did venture beyond their four walls, they wafted through crowded markets covered from head to toe in the all-encompassing burqa. While most women in conservative Afghanistan may still wear the burqa, today's Afghan woman has choices she didn't

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