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Agencies Published April 14, 2012
An Afghan woman holds up a poster during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 14. A group of Afghan women protested against domestic violence. The poster reads: ?Where is justice?. ? Photo by AP
An Afghan woman holds up a poster during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 14. A group of Afghan women protested against domestic violence. The poster reads: ?Where is justice?. ? Photo by AP
A Young Women for Change (YWC) activist (C) reads a statement during a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan women in less than a month in three provinces of the country. ? Photo by AFP
A Young Women for Change (YWC) activist (C) reads a statement during a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan women in less than a month in three provinces of the country. ? Photo by AFP
An Afghan woman holds up a poster during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 14. A group of Afghan women protested against domestic violence. The poster reads: ?Where is justice? and ?Wake up your conscience?. ? Photo by AP
An Afghan woman holds up a poster during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 14. A group of Afghan women protested against domestic violence. The poster reads: ?Where is justice? and ?Wake up your conscience?. ? Photo by AP
Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read ?where is justice??,take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14. ? Photo by AFP
Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read ?where is justice??,take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14. ? Photo by AFP
Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activist, Sadaf Fetrat, 19, holding a placard which reads ?where is justice?? takes part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14. ? Photo by AFP
Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activist, Sadaf Fetrat, 19, holding a placard which reads ?where is justice?? takes part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14. ? Photo by AFP
Fawzia Koofi speaks during an interview in Kabul April 12. Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken lawmaker Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights in Afghanistan and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014. Picture taken April 12. ? Photo by Reuters
Fawzia Koofi speaks during an interview in Kabul April 12. Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken lawmaker Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights in Afghanistan and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014. Picture taken April 12. ? Photo by Reuters

Young Women for Change (YWC) activists took to the streets to denounce violence against women in Afghanistan. About 30 women marched in the capital ofKabulagainst the killing of five Afghani women in three provinces in the last month alone. – Text and photos by Agencies

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Nasser Ali Khan
Apr 15, 2012 02:55pm
Women should stand up for their rights, if they want any. Like any victims, they have to get justice by force, physical and otherwise. No body will hand it to them, least of all Muslim men. Islam teaches all victims to fight justice; it is not a mere necessity but a duty in Islam. True Islam Zindabad
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