Many Afghans feel enormous anxiety as the 2014 deadline for withdrawing international combat forces from Afghanistan looms and warlords and other powerbrokers jockey for position. The powerful, when implicated in serious abuses, are almost never held to account, and the justice system fails ordinary Afghans. Torture is rampant in detention facilities. The Afghan government’s failure to tackle discrimination and respond effectively to violence against women undermines the already perilous state of women’s rights. Civilian deaths in 2012 from the armed conflict with the Taliban numbered several thousand.
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Women's rights activists march to support a female Afghan lawmaker during a demonstration in Kabul October 13, 2011.© 2011 Reuters
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