While teens in the West are more concerned with boys and their latest Facebook post, an increasing number of young girls in Afghanistan who are married off as young as 14 have resorted to setting themselves on fire in order to end their miserable lives.
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Draconian New Afghan Law Permits Marital Rape
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Afghan women are taking to the streets to demand that Parliament repeal a draconian new law that introduces a range of Taliban-like restrictions on their activity and permits, among others things, marital rape.
