Wheres justice promised to Afghan women?
They were promised justice. They were told they would be free to get an education, free to marry for love, free to live without fear of being raped for simply walking down the street unaccompanied by a male family member. Free to take off those dark burqas over their heads that had hidden years of humiliation and pain in their eyes. Now, two years after the United States kicked out the fanatical, misogynistic Taliban regime in Afghanistan, it is the world that needs to take its blinders off. The women of war-torn Afghanistan still cry out for justice, but much of the industrialized world has forgotten them. America’s 24-7 society has moved on to worry about U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq, about the terrorist atrocities in Israel, about the escalating costs of this war on terror that changed us in ways we still grapple to understand. Yet a new report by human-rights group Amnesty International paints a depressing picture for Afghan women who continue to live in terror. “Afghanistan: No one
