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Afghan Women

Canadian Soldiers Couldn't Save Afghan Rape Victim

Peter Worthington | Posted 02.05.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan Rape Victims, Afghan Women Rape, Afghan Women, Afghan Rape Victim Marriage, Gulnaz, Canada Politics News
Peter Worthington

Now our combat role in Afghanistan is finished, yet honour killings, death by stoning and imprisoning pregnant rape victims seem more the normal than aberrations. The question raised again is whether the mission has been worthwhile, considering the barbaric cultural mores of Afghanistan?

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Beauty That Could End War

Barbara Stegemann | Posted 01.18.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Womens Rights, Islamic Law, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Poppy Trade, Women in Business, Afghan Women, Self-Esteem, Heroin, Poppy Farms, Canada Living News
Barbara Stegemann

It's been referred to as "an unlikely weapon in the war:" a joyous fragrance at the beauty counter made from organic essential oils that help farmers in Afghanistan get off of the illegal poppy crop that accounts for 90 per cent of the world's heroin supply.

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Adieu Afghanistan

Sally Armstrong | Posted 10.04.2011 | Canada
Read More: Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Civil Wars, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Canada, Taliban, George Bush, Afghan Women, Mujahideen, Hazara, Canada News
Sally Armstrong

What happens now that a weary world is pulling up its military stakes in Afghanistan? Some worry that the gains women have made will be traded for a so-called peace with the fundamentalists. Don't believe it -- the women are poised to yank this primitive place into the 21st century. They are the reformers and they won't go home again.

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