Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Malou Innocent – CNN – Tuesday 2 March, 2013 Editor’s note: Malou Innocent is a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute and can be followed @malouinnocent. The views expressed are the writer’s own. During his recent unannounced visit to Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with prominent female entrepreneurs and the captain of the [...]
AFP – Dawn – Friday, 23 November 2012 (originally published 14 Nov) KABUL: Afghanistan has launched a new literacy programme that enables Afghan women deprived of a basic education during decades of war to learn to read and write using a mobile phone. The phone is called Ustad Mobile (Mobile Teacher) and provides national curriculum [...]
Melanie Stetson Freeman – Christian Science Monitor – Thursday, 06 September 2012 (originally published 03 Sept) Under Taliban rule, fewer than 50,000 girls attended school in Afghanistan. Today, 3.2 million attend. You see them all over town: girls wearing white head scarves over black clothes – their school uniform. It’s a welcome sign of progress. [...]
Associated Press – The Huffington Post – Thursday, 12 July 2012 (originally published 11 Jul) KABUL, Afghanistan — Dozens of men and women took to the streets of Kabul on Wednesday to protest the recent public slaying of an Afghan woman accused of adultery whose gruesome, execution-style killing was captured on video. The footage, which [...]
Toni Greaves – Guardian – Wednesday, 02 May 2012 (originally published 25 Apr) Afghanistan is a tough place to be a woman. Conflict and cultural repression have denied many education and careers, and affected their safety. But less than a year after its opening, 900 women have enrolled on courses at a vocational training centre [...]
