WUNRN
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Asian Human Rights Commission - AHRC
Human
Rights and Culture - Issue 7
AFGHANISTAN - WOMEN'S POEM
How
Would It Feel
Lydia Brackett
How would it feel
To walk down the streets of your country and not be known
How would it feel
To be enslaved by your own husband
To be beaten
To be raped
To be tortured to death
With meaningless cries for help.
How would it feel
To be imprisoned from the outside
Forbidden to work
To have an education
Feeling life is not worth living for.
How would it feel
To feel unworthy of your own name.
Lydia Brackett is a RAWA supporter from the USA. She was moved to write this poem after trying on the burqa. RAWA is the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Further information on their advocacy and work may be found at their website: http://www.rawa.org/index.php
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