Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Law protecting Afghan women has "long way to go": U.N. (Reuters)

Retired Maj. General Tom Cole, foreground left, assist with the Casing of the Unit Colors during a deployment ceremony for the 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, or 'Arrowhead Brigade, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Wash., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. Beginning in December, about 3,000 soldiers from the 3rd Brigade will deploy to southern Afghanistan to conduct counter-insurgency operations. Though the unit has deployed three times to Iraq, this is their first deployment to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Janet Jensen)Reuters - Afghan authorities are failing to enforce the law to protect women from murder, beating, rape and other violence and being sold into marriage and prostitution, the United Nations said on Wednesday.



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