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After two years of fact-finding and months of lobbying over local and regional televisions, newspapers, websites and radios, OWFI's activism receive the first results: the legislators have forwadrded a draft law against trafficking of women and girls.
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As usual, our NGO was not informed of the draft law and we had to hear it from the media.
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As usual, the govenment encourages their "SELECT NGOs" to hold meetings and raise their timid demands about the same issue albeit too late. They continue to call them "key" organizations in spite of their feable agenda on VAW
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As usual, the officials announce that they will someday set up shelters and visit prisons to help the trafficked women with the help of their "SELECT NGOs".
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In March 2009, the President of Afghanistan signed a law which legalizes rape in marriage and prevents women from leaving the house without permission of males.
Under this new family law framework, wives must submit to the sexual advances of husbands and be denied the most basic right of control over their bodies. The law also prevents women from seeking work, education or a doctor's appointments without their husband's permission. Moreover, the custody of children is solely vested to fathers and grandfathers.
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After seven years of occupation, women in
Iraq still suffer from insecurity and outrageous misogynist practices of the Islamist and nationalist ruling militias. The multiplying anti-women media of the ruling militias attempt to abort all our modern achievements for women's rights. Their media shows women who veil their presence from the society with ragged historic wear, thus announcing their total submission to the newly created male-chauvinist culture in
Iraq.
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