At the same time the United States is scaling back its goals for Afghanistan, women in the country are scaling up their own ambitions. In arenas ranging from medicine to the military, from small business to civil society, women are speaking up for themselves and tackling ever-larger aspirations.
Want a breakthrough in Mideast peace negotiations? Open the talks to women -- that's the nontraditional approach that two women from the Institute for Inclusive Security advise in a recent opinion piece.
Among our activities as an organization is to distribute humanitarian aid to women detained at the Directorate of Transfers in Kirkuk. Female detainees suffer from infirmity and lack of decent accommodations. The Ministry of the Interior does not ensure that it provides anything for them save basic meals of food and water, which would put them in a poor psychological state if it weren't for what civil society organizations gave them.
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The Peacebuilding & Development Institute in Sri Lanka (www.pdisl.org) is an international training, capacity building and research Institute in South Asia.
The old Pakistani maulawi laid two currency bills on the table between us, one for 50 rupees, the other for 100 rupees. "Now tell me," Rahat Gul asked, "which is the more valuable?" I thought it was a trap – which it was, in a way – but he lost patience with me and seized the 100 rupee note. "Now come with me." And he stood up and led me down a narrow corridor into a small bedroom.
More than 90% of the Sigma catalogue is marked in red for Palestinians. This means that Israel prohibits Palestinian university science professors, such as those at Birzeit University near Ramallah, from ordering most of the chemicals and acids they need for scientific research. Instead of being able to focus on research, Palestinian academics have to think about logistics.
