Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 07/2014

Sharia and Women's Rights in Afghanistan

Anastasiya Hozyainova

May 2014

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

Women’s rights in Afghanistan have been supported and championed by Afghan and international advocates and organizations since 2002. Substantial progress has been made, but the women’s rights movement faces an uncertain future in the wake of the 2014 international troop withdrawals.