Afghan Woman Jailed for Her Rape Has Been Freed–But May Still Marry Her Rapist

It’s a scene straight out of Old Testament: A 20-year-old woman who was raped by her cousin’s husband may now marry her rapist. The woman, known only as Gulnaz, reported the rape to local authorities ...Read More

Peace Unveiled–An Interview with Afghan Women’s Rights Activist Hasina Safi

The next installment of the groundbreaking five-part PBS series Women, War & Peace, airing October 25, takes us to Afghanistan, where women continue their fight to carve out a role for themselves ...Read More

Afghan Woman Legislator’s Hunger Strike Reaches Day Six

Today, Simin Barakzai reached her sixth consecutive day of a hunger strike to the death in a tent in front of the Afghan parliament building. [Update, Monday 10/10: On day nine, Barakzai is still ...Read More

Pawns of War and Peace: What Does the Future Hold for Afghan Women?

On November 18, 2001, in a radio address to the nation, then-First Lady Barbara Bush condemned the degrading treatment imposed on Afghan women by the Taliban regime. Thus the story of the U.S invasion ...Read More

The Women of Bamyan: A Progress Report

Last Wednesday I reached Bamyan province in Afghanistan. It was a sunny, windy day, and Bamyan looked beautiful and clean. When our small, nine-person plane got close to landing, I saw a group of ...Read More

India’s Hidden Suffering: Women and the Agrarian Crisis

When we talk about the agrarian crisis in India and the quarter of a million farmers who have committed suicide since 1995, we tend to think about the men and the physical act of suicide–swallowing ...Read More

Feudals, Feminists and Foreign Ministers

On July 19, Hina Rabbani Khar was sworn in as Pakistan’s youngest and first-ever woman foreign minister. It seemed like welcome news from a beleaguered country whose name evokes visions of misogyny ...Read More

Join the Fight to Help Burma

When the world last heard from Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist and feminist hero from Burma (Myanmar), she had been released from a collective 15-year house arrest ...Read More

SlutWalk Delhi Starts “Immodest” Discussion in India

They’ve walked in Toronto, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. They’ve marched through London, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo and Stockholm. They’re even organizing in Cape Town. And now, women walking to ...Read More

Forget the Tea Cups, Think About the Women

Just when you thought there could be no more bad PR for the war in Afghanistan, a crippling 60 Minutes investigation about celebrated author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson’s best-selling works, ...Read More

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