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more about #womensshelters more comments → Lymed: I feel there is no excuse for 1 in 8 women to die in childbirth. more » Bea Jolley: A good book I just finished reading that highlights some of the issues facing Afghan women is "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini, the same ... more » hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE: shelters such as WAW should start small communities where women are encouraged to work and learn to be self sufficient. i'm sure the communities woul... more » cantankasaurus rex: "The shelter's youngest occupant ever was a five-year-old rape victim." that's it, i am officially disgusted with humanity today. more » CherriSpryte: Can I just say, this nearly makes the invasion worth it? Play hide n seek with OBL as much as you like, but if there are also now women's shelters and... more » dirtybee: Its stories like these that make me so eternally grateful that I have the freedom to walk out of a relationship, physically abusive or not, without be... more » ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: this is awesome - but my paranoid mind worries about the vulnerability of the shelter itself to attacks :: it's kind of like in superhero movies when ... more » PilgrimSoul: "Foreign intrusion" my foot. Ask the women who are being protected by these shelters whether they think it impinges on national sovereignty. Until t... more » Hamsterpants: As fucked up as American society still is, this makes me REALLY glad I live here. more » morninggloria: Maybe those shelters should double as super secret Kill Bill-style martial arts training facilities. When the women graduate, they're given a new iden... more » Hooplehead: This is so great. More "foreign intrusion" in the name of protecting women's rights, please! more » AthertonMerriweather: Although the change seems to be coming slowly for these women, at least it's happening. I cannot imagine what that girl went through being married of... more » Whiskey and Popcorn: Today, I feel especially gratefull for feminism. more » -
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"He Knew I Had No One To Protect Me": Violence Against Women In Afghanistan
Afghan women can be married at 16, but many are forced into arranged marriages much earlier — and police in rural areas often return abused women to their husbands. Luckily, a handful of shelters offer refuge to some women. More » -
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In A "Culture Of Silence" Women's Shelters Provide Safe Haven
Until 2003, an abused woman living in Afghanistan would have two choices: stay with her husband or return shamed to her family. Police were no help, and women's shelters did not exist. More »
