As Congress debates U.S. involvement in Syria it should take into account the plight of women, whose rights are systematically quashed and who have been subjected to violence during the war.
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The Daily Run Down with Chuck Todd: The Syria Debate Continues to Divide the GOP
Michelle D. Bernard joins The Daily Run Down with Chuck Todd to discuss the Syria debate.
The Washington Post’s She The People: An Ashley Judd candidacy? Women voters may be the key
Judd has survived the gender politics of Hollywood and if she chooses to do so, can navigate her way through political high jinks and gender politics of a campaign in Kentucky.
The Washington Post’s She The People: President Obama Must Support Afghanistan’s Women Against the Taliban
The Washington Post’s She The People A girl reads aloud in an unsanctioned girls school in Spina, Afghanistan, on April 12, 2012. The Taliban shuttered a U.S.-funded girls’ school in 2007, leaving some children to attend an unsanctioned school in a family’s living room. (Kevin Sieff/The Washington Post) President Obama was elected to fix the […]
Afghanistan’s Unrelenting War On Women
There is absolutely a war on women being waged right now. In Afghanistan. In this file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women’s Prison in Afghanistan. (Suzanne […]