Photo caught from a video filmed by RAWA in Kabul using a hidden camera. Two Taliban from the department of Amro bil Mahroof (Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Taliban religious police) beating a woman in public because she removed her burqa in public. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The BBC reports on some humorous reaction from Facebook and Twitter, while CNN writes:
More than 2 million girls are now in school. Women make up a quarter of the Parliament. And nearly 3,000 midwives go out each day to save women’s lives in a country that Save the Children rated the deadliest for expectant mothers.
- For peace in Afghanistan, women can’t be ‘secondary’ (csmonitor.com)
- Afghan president backs strict guidelines for women (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- For Afghan women, new edicts a throwback to the Taliban era (thehindu.com)
