This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Today the iconic image of Afghanistan is again a young woman—Bibi Aisha, whose husband slashed off her nose ...

A Brief History of Women's Rights In Afghanistan Think of women in Afghanistan now, and you'll probably recall pictures in the media of women being forced to wear full-body burqas, perhaps the famous ...

Although Afghan ... National Security Council, joint leadership of the Afghan Gender Task Force by the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and the ambassador-at-large for global ...