16th November:

Channel 4 News in the UK screened a special report last night on the subject of women's rights in Afghanistan. The fall of the Taliban should have heralded a new dawn for the country's female population, but it would seem that Afghan women are still being denied the most basic social rights. Most destressing was the story of one woman being held in a special female prison outside Kabul. Her crime? She had fled her home after being assaulted and raped by her brother-in-law and was charged with adultery.

It is truly heartbreaking that in the 21st Centuty there are still women (and children, for that matter) suffering and being treated as 2nd-class citizens for the most tenuous of soical, cultural and historical reasons. Please do something about it here.