women’s rights in Afghanistan
- Johanna Higgs
- • February 13, 2019
ISHKASHIM, Afghanistan — I entered the country from the northeast, from Tajikistan, where I had been traveling for a month, researching the lives of women, as I have been doing across the world for years. From the small town…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Elisabeth Braw
- • October 29, 2013
LONDON — Georgette Gagnon’s job in Afghanistan as the country representative for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights may sound like an impossible mission, given the country’s notorious instability and flagrant abuse of women’s rights. Yet it…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Women