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	<title>Women talk online &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>The Afghan girl’s cry for help</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dw.de/womentalkonline/2013/05/21/the-afghan-girls-cry-for-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gopalakrishnanm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghan women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child, I often imagined I would die in front of my family or class mates and they would express their love to me and grieve over my dead body. This thought gave me a lot of satisfaction and even though I never really wished to be dead, just thinking I could be close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan&#8217;s homage to women</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dw.de/womentalkonline/2013/03/22/afghanistans-homage-to-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gopalakrishnanm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Women's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamana Jamily]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The international Afghan film festival was organized for the first time on the occasion of Women&#8217;s day in the Afghan city, Herat. Cinema is difficult in Afghanistan, where religious, cultural and political problems come in the way of freedom of expression. It is not easy enough to film in Afghanistan, because after the Taliban took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s day special: Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dw.de/womentalkonline/2013/03/09/womens-day-special-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gopalakrishnanm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FATA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manasi Gopalakrishnan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samar Minallah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swara]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samar Minallah is a prominent human rights activist and documentary film maker from Pakistan. Her documentary “Swara: bridge over troubled waters” analyses the Swara tradition, according to which a family gives one of its girls as compensation to an aggrieved family instead of blood money. Minallah actively speaks out against what she calls “culturally sanctioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Afghanistan really want its women?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dw.de/womentalkonline/2012/12/05/does-afghanistan-really-want-its-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gopalakrishnanm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gisa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gul Meena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honour killing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roma rajpal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Women who dare to love, to pursue a career and women who refuse to be tied down by the conservative society are simply eliminated in Afghanistan.  To this day, tribal courts and the Taliban use the Sharia (Islamic law) and order punishments such as stoning and executions.  With a massive number of women falling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A promising future, conditions apply</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dw.de/womentalkonline/2012/10/31/a-promising-future-but-conditions-apply/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dw.de/womentalkonline/2012/10/31/a-promising-future-but-conditions-apply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gopalakrishnanm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fawzia Koofi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I met her, I noticed her branded handbag, her golden wrist watch, her light pink wrinkle-free coat and a black chiffon scarf carefully wrapped around her head. I wondered if that was what she was all about. In my next talk with her, I realised there was more to her than her [...]]]></description>
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