.... Unfortunately, women have been marginalized in the decision making for the peace process and their petitions have been ignored by national leaders.
Except for a general statement that women’s rights will not be sacrificed in the name of peace, nothing concrete was taken to guard against the reversion of women’s status to the pre-2001 era.
President Hamid Karzai has been turning a deaf ear to the pleadings of women’s rights activists, claiming that he had already faced a lot of embarrassment in defending women’s rights would no longer do anything in this regard. [openDemocracy] Read more
