UN rights chief deplores killing of protesters in Egypt
23 November 2011 –
There is a long way to go before the
rights of Afghan women are fully protected, says a United Nations
report released today, noting that the Government has not yet succeeded in applying a two-year-old landmark law to the vast
majority of
cases of violence against women.
The 2009 Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law criminalises child marriage, forced marriage, selling and
buying women for the purpose or under the pretext of marriage, baad (giving away a woman ....
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