If you haven’t already, sign the petition to Karzai to save Afghan women’s shelters.
UN analyst Una Moore explains why.
Conservative politicians and media personalities have long railed against Afghanistan’s few women’s shelters and demanded that the facilities be closed. Two years ago, the government appointed a hard-line mullah to lead a commission to investigate shelters and recommend reforms…
Now, the shelter commission’s verdict is in. The government will seize all women’s shelters countrywide and place them under the control of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the police. Women and girls seeking protection will have to plead their cases before an admissions panel of government employees and undergo medically dubious “examinations” to prove they are not guilty of adultery or prostitution. If a woman passes both tests and is admitted, she will not be allowed to leave without official permission. In effect, Afghanistan’s few refuges for abused women are about to become prisons.
Under the new shelter regulations, if a woman’s family comes to claim her, she must be handed over.
Because, you see, the whole thing is obviously a prostitution ring set up by foreigners. Any woman who is not under the thumb of the man who owns her is self-evidently a prostitute. Therefore shelters must be run by reactionary men who will have the women raped by examination on entry and then either imprisoned in the former shelter or returned to the men who own them.
Men are people and women are their livestock. Don’t you ever forget it.
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14 responses to “Bullies win another round”
“Men are people and women are their livestock. ”
That is such a horrible statement, even more so for literally being true as far as most religions are concerned.
There is no hope when Islam is in power. Shame on our governments for being complicit in furthering these monstrous regimes.
Is there anything else we can do for these shelters? Someone we can write to or email?
Just signed the petition.
This makes me so angry…
I hate myself for saying so, but those shits ought to be dead.
I’ve just signed to the petition, I don’t believe that it’ll help that much, but I don’t know what else to do…
I’ve signed the petition. I hope it helps.
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Signed. We can’t do a lot more from this distance. Well, mostly.
This is so depressing even though I always believed that the women of Afghanistan would be thrown under the bus. What is the Obama administration doing about such things? And why are our soldiers dying to protect medieval barbarity and the enrichment of afghani politicians?
Signed. More evidence that religion is not just not moral, but immoral.
Julian – Lauryn Oates would probably be a good person to write to for advice on how to do more.
Afghanistan? Or the US? http://pol.moveon.org/waronwomen/?rc=fb
Argh.
Ah, woman jail… Hell of a country we re-built there…
I’m sure when the see all these signatures on an internet position they will change their ways.
Sorry. It ain’t gonna happen. The only possible thing that could change things is pressuring the US government, but we all know that Obama will put on a serious face, express deep concern and manage to see a glimmer of hope that things are improving. But the same policies will continue.