{"id":1165,"date":"2004-10-07T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T21:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/07\/afghan-womens-rights\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T21:47:45","slug":"afghan-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women&#039;s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Echidne has an <a href=\"http:\/\/echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com\/2004_10_01_echidneofthesnakes_archive.html#109716927404730674\">excellent post on Afghan Women and the upcoming elections<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a sample, but you should read her entire post.<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">But supposing that some women at least do manage to get to the voting sites, how will they cast their votes? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensenews.org\/article.cfm\/dyn\/aid\/2019\">A recent survey <\/a>shows that 72% of Afghanis believe that men should direct their womenfolks&#8217; voting choices. Given this, it&#8217;s unlikely that these women&#8217;s votes would somehow recast the political power structure in the country.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In some ways the ability to vote may not matter very much to most Afghan women. Their lives are so affected by tradition, religion and their immediate family members that any distant political changes in Kabul might go completely unnoticed. A country which imprisons a twelve-year old for refusing her father&#8217;s decision to marry her off to an old man has a long way to go before it can be called a democracy, whether women vote or not.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Related article: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3721932.stm\">The BBC <\/a>has an article today surveying the dismal state of women&#8217;s rights in Afghanistan, with several anecdotes from women in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Echidne has an excellent post on Afghan Women and the upcoming elections. Here&#8217;s a sample, but you should read her entire post. But supposing that some women at least do manage to get to the voting sites, how will they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}