One provision makes it illegal for a woman to resist her husband’s sexual advances. A second provision requires a husband’s permission for a woman to work outside the home or go to school. And a third makes it illegal for a woman to refuse to “make herself up” or “dress up” if that is what her husband wants.Despite the April 12th murder by the Taliban of Sitara Achakzai (below right) (credit), an Afghan
women's rights advocate and politician, on April 15 200-300 Afghan woman braved a crowd of 1000 counter-demonstrators shouting epithets such as 'whores" and "infidels," spitting on them and pelting them with rocks to march 2 miles to the Parliament, where a few supportive parliamentarians met them to discuss striking the law's most offensive provisions. (Prior post.)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among others, has expressed her concerns about the law "directly" to President Karzai, who may be able to "unsign" the law since it hasn't yet been published.
