GLOBAL PULSE: Afghan Women: Far From Equal (8/21/09)

Posted by on May 12, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Women are expected to wear a Burqa because the Taliban are active in this area, next on mobile homes. How these news outlets around the world are covering the struggle of women in Afghanistan. Women have made progress in Afghanistan but even though they can run for office equality is still just a dream. High I am Erin Coker. Iran’s Press TV pointed out at the taliban’s treatment of women led to a justification for war. “They sold the invasion of the way of driving out the Taliban, while empowering the female population but the Taliban, still in evidence and anything the wall who is becoming more bloody and entrenched. Is the more home been good for women’s rights,” said PressTV/Iran. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has now signed a law that in a fact, return some women to the oppression experienced under the Taliban as ABC News reported. The new law severely restricts the right in Afghanistan’s three million Shiite women. Allowing husbands to refuse support two wives who do not obey their sexual demands, and requiring women to get permission from their husbands to work. When the law was first signed in March its part outrage here and around the world, Karzai withdrew it but in the middle of the presidential campaign it is back apparent attempt to win votes among conservatives. Even women who gain a measure a power can escape danger according to this report by the BBC. Every day when the first woman prosecutor here at needs home she does not know should see her children again. Maria Bashir is guarded round-the-clock extremists detonated a massive bomb outside her home last year. Maria the top law officer in the province is trying to give women human rights and equality they were promised that under the constitution adopted by President Karzai’s government five years ago, but this hasn’t happened. This woman cannot can protection from her husband and drug addict in idsa. The organization Women for Women International reports that up to eighty percent Afghan women are affected by domestic violence. Nearly half of all girls are forced into marriage before 16 and eighty-five percent of women have no formal education...

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Farmers, their animals and the environment – Africa – Part 1

Posted by on May 11, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Curved horns help these codes push away the tall grass, when food is scarce tales filled with fat help these sheep survive. The extra skin on this Bulls neck helps it stay cool in the heat is shiny coat reflects the hot Sun light. these donkeys can digest food with very little water, these are genetic traits evolved over the centuries as these animals adapted to survive the hostile environment this region.not only have individual farmers benefited from the animal’s ability to survive, the entire region has benefited in terms reliable agricultural production. Every day list them Zebedayo Mchiwa faces the same problem he must find grass for the animals he tends sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s not, he passes his time by making music he offers as is music to be the soundtrack for this video. as we listen will meet other farmers and hear their stories, these are the farmers of southern Africa all rely on animals these farmers recognize that their best hope for the future is with indigenous animals, local animals that have already survived in this region for thousands of years and will continue to survive and to provide benefits to the farmers who need them. The Zebedayo Mchiwa is one of those farmers the rains came late in central Tanzania this year his crops failed, but it’s not a total disaster because he has his cattle his herd include a local breed called improper of during the drought several years ago when most improved cattle in this region died the umpapa what survived so he’s added them to is heard and knows they will see him through the tough times. Zebedayo Mchiwa I plan to use these cattle because I can sell one or two of them, I can use the money from the sale to buy the food I need to feed my family. There is a bit of irony here yes the umpapa will help mister Mchiwa and his family survive, but the breed itself is at risk of extinction and the fade of the umpapa is not unique acrossthe region many other breeds indigenous farm animals face similar features. Southern Africa is a land of...

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Afghanistan: War Without End, Part 1

Posted by on May 9, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

This is the story of Afghanistan a country are staggering beauty and remarkable people. But it is also story have repeated invasions heroic resistance and compass wars. The tragedy is that the west’s often willful ignorance about Afghanistan’s recent past, has condemned to people to a seemingly endless struggle for survival. It is a story that is come to dominate my life. The margins are the Hindu Kush cover most about Afghanistan, as well as the southern border with Pakistan. This is where the Taliban, came to power and where Al Qaeda had that training camps. From these camps came the hijackers who destroyed the twin towers on September the 11th 2001. In retaliation America bomb the Taliban out of power. “Institution again and again that exercising control over Afghanistan is easier said than done. The American’s are the last in a long line the farmhouse, who tried to been the travel in Afghans to that will, few have succeeded,” said Sandy Gall. In The name of God, I would not give one speck of my land for the whole Kremlin, Nor one flower from my land for the whole of Washington. “They have often been conquered but they have never been subdued and dominated. They do not play by normal rules,” said Nigel Ryan. “One other thing you learn, if you look at history is that for example strength for some firepower and cannot control necessarily a country particularly when you have country with mountaineers difficult terrain and very determined and proud independent people,” said Sir Nicholas Barrington. “I first visited Afghanistan in 1982, two-and-a-half years after the same its invasion. When President Brezhnev sent in the red army to prop up the new an unpopular communist government in Kabul,” said Sandy Gall. Soon after the invasion all western journalists were bomb and the only way to report the war was to travel with the majority in resistance. This meant crossing the border illegally and walking across the mountains. Few television networks were prepared to spend the time and money, so coverage for the wall was sparse which meant the Russian atrocities went largely unreported. “We got together documentary team, and we literally...

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Inside Herat’s Female Prison (NATO in Afghanistan)

Posted by on May 8, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

After three decades of war, Afghanistan’s women still face a number of challenges. Violence, sexual assault and lack of enforcement of Afghan laws that protect them are faced by many women every day, many of whom are unaware of their own rights, as protected in the Afghan constitution. Herat is one of the more secure provinces in Afghanistan, but, like other areas, it has a number of vulnerable women. The city’s female prison holds 140 inmates. Their children often live alongside them. According to prison officials, they’re accused of various crimes, ranging from drug trafficking and murder to running away from home. “The majority of women who are sentenced to prison are accused of killings, kidnappings and unfortunately we also have 96 cases of moral crimes,” say’s Major General Shah Mir Mirpoor Some prisoners say they’ve been dealt bad justice, as their sentences are unfairly long. “I’ve been a prisoner for 10 months. At the first court, they sentenced me to six years in prison. But at the secondary court, the judge himself said six years was a lot for a woman.” Lailuma Muradi is accused of killing her husband. She claims she’s innocent, but the court disagreed and sentenced her to 18 years in prison. “I am accused of my husband’s murder. It’s been a year and two months I’ve been in here. I have been sentenced to prison for 18 years, but I did not kill my husband. Someone else killed him and fled. Then the government arrested me.” Sometimes, women who have run away from home end up in prison. Although often presented as a crime in Afghanistan, if a couple run away together, present themselves at court and apply to get married with the agreement of their families, they will both be pardoned. This woman says she ran away because she wanted to marry the man that she loved. “My crime was fleeing from home, we loved each other, but our families wouldn’t let us get married through the legal way, so we decided to run away from home, but after two days we were arrested by police.” Suraiya Sobrang is a women’s rights activist. She says this year in...

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Notes from Afghanistan: Cultural Heritage Protection

Posted by on May 2, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I was invited to Afghanistan by the US Embassy in Kabul in tandem with the state department, and specifically they invited me to advise them on their archaeological program and especially on archaeological conservation both in Kabul and in the southern part of Afghanistan. this data cultural heritage preservation in Afghanistan is not good the country has then in the midst of the Thirty Years War they call it the Thirty Years War, starting in 1979 when the Soviets invaded continuing with the Civil War under the mujahedeen and then continuing on still with the Taliban. Ending in a sense only with the I’m with the Northern Alliance is victory over the Taliban and the entry at the United States and other UN countries into Afghanistan a few years ago, but during that period I mean even after the UN and the US entered Afghanistan not a lot of attention was focused on cultural heritage protection, on the the archaeological conservation, archaeological sites they would trying to get the economy under control and trying to get the political structure under control. Most of us have an experienced a country like Afghanistan we’re literally everything was broken and had been broken for thirty years, keep in mind there were any archaeological conservators in the country there were barely any functioning museums all love them had been hit by rockets if not during the Soviet invasion then during the Civil War or during the period at the Taliban or they have been destroyed by the Taliban plenty of monuments that dated before the Islamic conquest at the 7th century AD were judged fair game by the Taliban and they were hacked up just as they hacked up the giant Buddhas and balmy on so the monuments were in terrible terrible...

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Torn Between Two Cultures: Afghans in Europe

Posted by on May 1, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

International trips is scheduled to leave Afghanistan by the end next year, and when they do many afghans fear that is the Taliban may return. And this could result in a new wave of refugees from Afghanistan looking for a new life in the west. But the shiny concept report from Germany, living in the different culture is not always easy. 25 years old Waslat Hasrat Nazimi has been living in Germany for the past twenty years now. Their parents decided to leave Afghanistan to escape the civil war in the 1990’s. Now a prominent journalist in the German media, she says, she had witnessed an influx of Imigrance from her home land to Europe. Waslat Hasrat Nazimi say’s “Well, on one side you have the generation the first generation, who came here, and who left their home country, and who never got over. The fact that they left their home country and the prestige and the chances they had, they left everything just for the sake of security. And then, you have the younger generation. And I think that the younger generation is very torn apart between, the Afghan culture and the German culture and they, struggle to find a way in between. But for most of them, it is very hard, so they’re neither afghans no German.” What is the last balance that will advocated, then lucky enough to enter your illegally. But a large number of Afghans a risk their lives crossing borders illegally, through Pakistan, Iran, turkey and Greece. 24 years old, Baryalai Arghousi, is a classic example of an illegal immigrant. He has been living in the Asylum Seekers Dometry for six years. With the basic stipend from the German government, He is still waiting for his asylum requests to be granted. Baryalai Arghousi say’s “I take three sleeping pills every night, so I can sleep well. If I still cannot sleep, I take anti-depressant pills. This is life in Europe. In my homeland, I do not remember ever taking a pain killer but here I am living on them now.” It is estimated that there are or 100,000 afghans in Germany alone. The afghan community organizes poetry and...

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