Women and marriage in Afghanistan

Channel 4 by Alex Thomson | Aug. 19, 2009 (Interview)

(Video) Without much fanfare and little outcry, Afghanistan has enacted a new law allowing Shiite men to starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.

Earlier this year Gordon Brown and Barack Obama joined the international outcry against an earlier version legalising rape within marriage. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Aug 19, 2009 - 7:25 AM PDT
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