Afghan women live in fear - CNN video

Afghan women live in fear - CNN video

-- UN estimates that 1 in 3 women in Afghanistan experiences
physical, sexual, or psychological abuse

-- reports on woman who committed suicide to escape by burning herself
alive

-- interview with Rana Tarin (also spelled Roona Tahrin), head of women's department who
fears being killed, after replacing woman who was killed by Taliban

-- women being taught to sow by Rana Tarin, then allowed to take sowing
machine home - "the only safe place for a woman in Kandahar to work"

-- CNN reporter Paula Hancock states that some women wearing the burqa
for "reasons of becoming unrecognizable"

-- women's rights campaigner Shahidah Hussain does not dare to leave
home without wearing burqa due to threats against her life

-- threats are not unusual for Kandahar women who work, but now they
feel unsafe working in their own homes

CNN
video

See also R.E.A.L. postings:

Policy
Against Terrorism Begins with Human Rights

R.E.A.L.'s Jeffrey Imm
Protests the Taliban

Afghan
Constitution, Women’s Rights, and the Taliban

Rana Tarin (also spelled Roona Tahrin), head of
women's department who fears being killed, after replacing woman who was
killed by Taliban (Photo: CNN Clip)

women being taught to sow
by Rana Tarin, then allowed to take sowing machine home - "the only safe
place for a woman in Kandahar to work" (Photo: CNN clip)

CNN reporter Paula Hancock states that some women
wearing the burqa for "reasons of becoming unrecognizable" (Photo: CNN
Clip)

women's rights campaigner Shahidah Hussain
threatened with death (Photo: CNN Clip)