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A good reason to help Afghanistan

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
A good reason to help Afghanistan
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/afghan-husbands-win-right-to-starve-wives/
Last week, though, Human Rights Watch discovered that a revised version of the Shiite Personal Status Law had been quietly put into effect at the end of July � meaning that Shiite men in Afghanistan now have the legal right to starve their wives if their sexual demands are not met and that Shiite women must obtain permission from their husbands to even leave their houses, �except in extreme circumstances.�[/quote]
 
because.... wait for it...
 
[quote]The new law was signed by President Hamid Karzai, who is depending on support from Sheik Muhammad Asif Mohseni, the country�s most powerful Shiite cleric, in this week�s presidential election.
 
FFS 
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
2009 - Are we really sure this is the right year or is it year 20 AD??
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The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I don't think that's anything to do with the reason for us going there though. If our government (and other western nations) cared one bit about women's rights we would say something to our buddies Saudi Arabia about theirs.
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
or even look at our own

less than 1% of all assets held in either Banks or Shares is registered to a female.

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
foal30 wrote:
or even look at our own

less than 1% of all assets held in either Banks or Shares is registered to a female.


wow thats unreal....
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
foal30 wrote:
or even look at our own

less than 1% of all assets held in either Banks or Shares is registered to a female.
 
Source please.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
CTU NZ
Gender Lens
Child Poverty Action Group
World Bank
OnLineWomaninPolitics

you can also cop things like WINZ, Social Security for the USA etc to see the % of recipients by Gender. Often this is broken into racial groups too.  It's pretty sobering stuff because if the value of the Western democracies is in it's supposed delivery of freedom then a system that delivers freedom via what you can afford to spend means our exporting of "human rights" is a bit tenous.

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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