America's Afghan Women Problem
Activists worry the U.S. military's alleged cover-up of the killing of three Afghan women could bolster the Taliban's attempts to roll back women's rights. Days after United States-led NATO forces...
View ArticleThe Gas Attack on Young Girls
More than 80 Afghan girls have fallen ill in a wave of school poisonings in the past week. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on how women are fighting back-by keeping girls in school. Afghan authorities say they...
View ArticleA Warning in Kabul
Secretary Clinton may be one of the highest-profile attendees at Tuesday's Kabul Conference, but Afghan women fear their opinions won't be heard-and they worry new deals with fighters will roll back...
View ArticleA Girl Triumphs Over an Unspeakable Crime
Nine months ago, The Daily Beast reported on an horrific crime: An Afghan teenager's nose and ears were cut off by vindictive in-laws after she tried to run away from an abusive marriage. Now, after...
View ArticleLet Women Protect Afghanistan
The WikiLeaks cache highlighted the problem of police corruption in Afghanistan. Could new female officers change the force's culture? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon reports from Kabul. A dozen women wearing...
View ArticleAn 11-Year-Old Bride Escapes
Obaida, a young Afghan girl, was sold into marriage at age 11 to support her father's drug habit. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon reports from Kabul on Obaida's triumphant escape-and why she's still in danger....
View ArticleAfghan Women Need Us
Katie Couric, Zainab Salbi, and other attendees at a dinner held during the Clinton Global Initiative made an impassioned plea for an Afghan peace deal that does not abandon its women. At a star-filled...
View ArticleBibi Aisha's Pain Isn't Over
Nearly a year after we first reported the story of Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan teenager brutally maimed by her Taliban-sympathizing husband and his family, she's been relocated to the U.S. and become a...
View ArticleBibi Aisha's Tormentor Captured
A year after the relatives of a teenage girl cut off her nose and ears while her husband tied her down, Afghan police have arrested one of those allegedly responsible. Bibi Aisha is one step closer to...
View ArticleTelevision's Threat to Afghan Women
A well-known television host claims shelters for women support prostitution. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon reports from Afghanistan on how the allegations put shelter staffers in mortal danger. Shelters...
View ArticleAfghanistan's Appalling Pregnancy Deaths
Every 30 minutes, a pregnant woman dies in Afghanistan. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon reports from Kabul on a courageous young woman determined to change that. When Feroza Mushtari was barely a teenager, she...
View ArticleWhy Is Karzai Cracking Down on Women?
The Afghan president is planning to take control of women's shelters, accusing them of corruption. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon talks to women who are afraid their rights are being taken away as a compromise...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's War for Women's Rights
The secretary of state is on a mission: putting women's rights at the forefront of a rapidly emerging new world order. In this week's Newsweek, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon talks to Clinton about the greatest...
View ArticleWhen Everything Changed
In an excerpt from her new book, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the story of the Taliban's arrival in Kabul and how women's lives there changed instantly. The News Arrives...
View ArticlePakistan's Gang-Rape Verdict Travesty
A high court set free several of the men accused of the shocking gang-rape of Mukhtar Mai. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on why the activist for women's rights now fears for her life. Pakistan's Supreme Court...
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