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New UN report takes firm stand on women's rights in Afghanistan

Date: July 8, 2009

Author: Aunohita Mojumdar

QUOTE: The 'Silence is Violence' report documents the failure of [Afghanistan] state institutions to protect women from increasing violence in public spaces.

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• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

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• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Choices/Tolerance/Flexibility

• Law & Justice
  • Legal Ethics
  • Non-US systems: Religious/local

• Philosophy & Religion
  • Religion: General
    • Islam
    • Religious Freedom / Separation Church and State

• Social Sciences & Groups
  • Women-Men Issues
    • Gender Discrimination

• Eurasia / Central Asia
  • Afghanistan

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