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CloseWar on Women
July 9, 2011
Zohra Rasekh is a member of Physicians for Human Rights and author of The Taliban's War on Women.
By interviewing nearly 200 Afghani women in Afghanistan and in refugee camps, Zohra Rasekh compiled a statistical portrait of the cost of the Taliban's oppression of Afghan women. The health costs are real and staggering. Here she details them and gives a prescription for improvement.