Important Issues

August, 2010: Attacks on girls in schools continue. Girls School Poisoned in Afghanistan Today

March, 2010: WHO ARE THE TALIBAN? They aren't just bushy-bearded Afghan men with black turbans - they are a state of mind. To overcome their legacy in Afghanistan, we must know the enemy. Find out more in this special to the Globe and Mail.

January 05, 2010: An article from the Calgary Herald, titled "Teaching Afghan children to honour Canadian heroes".

September 2009: The Globe and Mail goes "Behind the Veil" in Afghanistan

April 2009: World outraged as Hamid Karzai signs law legalizing Rape-In-Marriage.

April 2009: 300 Afghan women, facing an angry throng three times larger than their own, walked the streets of the capital on Wednesday to demand that Parliament repeal a new law that introduces a range of Taliban-like restrictions on women, and permits, among other things, marital rape. See story from CBC television. More information from the New York Times.

March 2009: Will we defend the girls of Afghanistan? - Our troops are fighting to defend the rights of women. Why isn't the government of Afghanistan supporting women's rights? - The Feminist Majority Foundation launches a campaign for Afghan women and girls, and holds a press conference.

January 2008: - The Canadian Government commissioned a report on Afghanistan. This document on Canada's future role in Afghanistan can be viewed here. The Manley Report - Canadians in Support of Afghan Women [CSAW] have the following response. - Please read CSAW's Discussion Paper on the Manley Report. - Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan issued the following response.