15.4.09

Winds of Change

Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images for The New York Times
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The young women stepped off the bus and moved toward the protest march just beginning on the other side of the street when they were spotted by a mob of men.
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“Get out of here, you whores!” the men shouted. “Get out!”
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The women scattered as the men moved in.
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“We want our rights!” one of the women shouted, turning to face them. “We want equality!”
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The women ran to the bus and dove inside as it rumbled away, with the men smashing the taillights and banging on the sides.
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“Whores!”
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But the march continued anyway. About 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. (...)
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Fonte: The New York Times
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