WUNRN
AFGHANISTAN - IMPRISONMENT OF WOMEN
& GIRLS FOR "MORAL CRIMES"
Direct Link to Full Report:
Photo Essay: http://www.hrw.org/features/afghanistan-moral-crimes
March 28, 2012 - This 120-page report is based on 58
interviews conducted in three prisons and three juvenile detention facilities
with women and girls accused of “moral crimes.” Almost all girls in juvenile
detention in
The fall of the Taliban government in 2001 promised a new era of women’s
rights. Significant improvements have occurred in education, maternal
mortality, employment, and the role of women in public life and governance. Yet
the imprisonment of women and girls for “moral crimes” is just one sign of the
difficult present and worrying future faced by Afghan women and girls as the
international community moves to decrease substantially its commitments in
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