Columbia Law Panel: Civil Rights For Women in Afghanistan?

Columbia Law: Civil Rights for Women?:

"The freedom women in Afghanistan enjoy today is a curious freedom indeed. It is a freedom to be married at age 9 to a man 5, 6 or 7 times her age, and then be deprived of the ability to go to school by virtue of her new status as wife. It is a freedom to walk the streets without being fully covered by a burka, but at the risk of being subjected to a virginity exam by agents of the Ministry of Enforcement of Virtue and Suppression of Vice - a ministry established by the Taliban, but retained by President Karzai under the new name Ministry of Religious Affairs." MORE... (February 17th (2003) )