Lessons from Afghanistan: Jodie Evans On MIPtalk
Jodie Evans talks about her most recent trip to Afghanistan on MIPtalk. Take a listen here.
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Lessons from Afghanistan: Taliban, women, Karzai, and outsiders
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Sara Nichols is an environmental and political activist, retired environmental attorney, and board member of Women’s Campaign International. She was a delegate on CODEPINK’s recent visit to Afghanistan. Below she writes about some of the local perspectives and challenges she discovered in Afghanistan. I thought day one was as interesting as a day could get. But [...]
Afghan Women Speak Out: Dr. Roshnak Wardak
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
From Jodie Evans: I am just returning from my 10-day trip to Afghanistan. As we left, a farm was bombed and eight members of a family were killed. Eight U.S. soldiers also lost their lives in an insurgent raid on their outpost. And today marks the 8th anniversary of the US Invasion of that war [...]
Afghanistan: Will Obama Listen to the Women?
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
This article was originally posted on the Women’s Media Center. October 7, 2009 With the eighth anniversary of our invasion of Afghanistan nearing and a leaked letter from our general in Afghanistan that he wants another 40,000 troops before the funding for the last request of 21,000 has really been fully voted on, we felt [...]
Meeting with the women of Afghanistan
Sunday, October 4, 2009
We started out the day visiting a women’s magazine called Roz. We were amazed at how “risqué” the photos were (we couldn’t read the articles)—women without scarves and with lots of make-up. We asked if they had problems publishing such photos and they said no, but that one time they published a photo of a [...]
Day 4: Meeting ministers and looking toward the future
Thursday, October 1, 2009
I figured out what makes the birds sing throughout the night—it is the call to prayer. But at 4am, after going to bed at 3:30, it is not so charming anymore. Sara moved her room because she was getting no sleep. However, in the late afternoon after spending all day in the dust of Kabul, [...]
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