Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, has signed a law which "legalises" rape, women's groups and the United Nations warn. Critics claim the president helped rush the bill through parliament in a bid to appease Islamic fundamentalists ahead of elections in August.
In a massive blow for women's rights, the new Shia Family Law negates the need for sexual consent between married couples, tacitly approves child marriage and restricts a woman's right to leave the home, according to UN papers seen by The Independent.
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I still don't see how we're gonna do anything there besides getting good Americans killed. I don't like giving up on anyone but it seems these people are regressing. What Obama and the rest of them don't get is that you can't bring people forward a thousand years developmentally in the matter of a few years. Look at what happened in Iraq and they were one of the most "westernized" of the Islamic nations. Afghanistan is centuries behind them. I don't see how we're fighting anything but a losing battle there.
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