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looks like people (including Clinton) are on this:
[www.guardian.co.uk]
Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, came under intense western pressure yesterday to scrap a new law that the UN said legalised rape within marriage and severely limited the rights of women.
At a conference on Afghanistan in The Hague, Scandinavian foreign ministers publicly challenged the Afghan leader to respond to a report on the new law in yesterday's Guardian, and the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was reported to have confronted Karzai on the issue in a private meeting.
At a press conference after the meeting, Clinton made clear US displeasure at the apparent backsliding on women's rights. "This is an area of absolute concern for the United States. My message is very clear. Women's rights are a central part of the foreign policy of the Obama administration," she said.
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03/31/09
I emailed Boxer and Feinstein's offices, classifying this as "Foreign Affairs" and have posted the Guardian article on my Facebook page to see if I can get any of my friends outraged as well.
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Write letters to your Senators, your Representatives, John Kerry and Dick Lugar on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Barbara Boxer on the Senate Subcommittee on Global Women's Issues. Write to Karzai via Amnesty. AND WRITE TO CLINTON AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT! There are a ton of links and a few letters that you can mine for really good ideas about how to craft such a letter scattered all through those comments. Someone pointed out that its best you say that you're writing about "Foreign Policy" rather that "Women's Issues" -- sad, but true. (And it is foreign policy. Or it should be).
Say how angry and disappointed you are. Say how great you felt when Clinton said all that "up with women and girls" stuff -- and call her on it! And if you're Muslim, make sure you say that too. If you know someone Muslim who would be willing to write such letters, ask them to do so.
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@dearheart: It BIT you? Get a tetanus shot within the next thirty seconds or you'll turn into one of them!
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@HillGirl: I think several of them are the same person, to be honest. Or else fuckingannoyingidiots.com linked to us again.
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Rapey with the posts? Really? Doesn't this phrasing strike you as the least bit inappropriate?
To give a short answer: Jez is geared towards women. Women are often victims/survivors of (sexual) abuse. So yes, there's stuff about rape. Also, abortion. Drinking. Bras. News. Douchebags.
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We talk about rape sometimes but we talk about fun stuff too. It's a give-and-take.
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Anyways, even though it may not have been big news stateside, it was here, and every little detail of the summit was discussed, several times, over the course of the day. Yet the stuff Jez posted on today was not mentioned, at all, and all the journalists said at the end was how the summit had been a great success and HRC hadn't asked The Netherlands to keep leading military operations in the province of Uruzgan after 2010 and oh BREAKING HRC's dog had gone missing in the city!
It's absolutely baffling.
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What the hell is going on?
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I hope they found HRC's dog...