Afghanistan Women’s Rights Abuses Prevail Despite New Law, U.N. Says.

What’s so difficult about the concept of a nation’s future depending on women as well as men? Putting handcuffs on half the population does nothing except further ignorance.

Muslim-majority countries will never garner global respect when incidents of violence against women remain largely under-reported because of cultural restraints, social norms and religious beliefs.

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