Women hopefuls face particular risks in Afghan poll, Reuters (2010)
This article reports on the difficulties that women have to face while running for the elections in Afghanistan. Endless threats, abusive emails and phone calls are only the tip of a widespread trend of intimidations against female candidates. The quota for the women in the lower house of the parliament set by the Afghan Constitution is 68 out of 249.
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