Two Afghan women in Kabul's streets to protest against harassment

on Sunday, July 17, 2011

Out a small group of women Mukluk Kaaopa high and put caps on Rashen to the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday to protest the harassment of men in public places.
And raised the 20 women or so of the placards read «the street, I also» and »will not tolerate insults anymore» and with them some of the men in solidarity with their cause, and is still Afghanistan, a very conservative with cultural constraints and social on the freedoms of women, despite the achievements made dramatic improvements to their legal rights Since the overthrow of the Taliban from power by about ten years.
The Organization of the march Noor Jahan's largest (19 years) Foundation group «young women for change» rights «The idea behind the harassment of women on the street is that the women not to leave the house», she said «We want to fight this mentality because we believe that these street king Just as we are the property of men in this country ».
She said she personally suffered from harassment on an ongoing basis to make it hate to walk anywhere, as long as focused international attention on the attacks, the most extreme on the freedom of women, including attacks with liquid acid on girls while commuting to school and poisoning ambiguous in several schools for girls, including schools in Kabul .
Heydari said Anita (19 years), who teaches film and computer science, helped organize the protest «We want to wear the clothes and the way they walk by, this is our decision».

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