*This article of mine is published on CNN.* Afghanistan’s “peace deal” has been blown up. The government has resumed fighting the Taliban after a horrifying attack by gunmen on a maternity ward run by Doctors Without Borders in Kabul. Mothers and nurses were the main victims in the first attack, with 16 killed. Two of […]
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It was a huge honor, and so much fun, to celebrate the first United Nations International Day of the Girl Child at Ms. Magazine’s 40th Anniversary Luncheon at the Washington Press Club in downtown DC. Sandwiched between my feminist icons, Eleanor Smeal and Gloria Steinem, I had to express my honor and disbelief at this
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This month, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry investigating the death of Benazir Bhutto released a report which tells us nothing we did not already know: The 2007 assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Bhutto could have been prevented if the government of then President Pervez Musharraf had provided her with “adequate security”. Thank you,
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Just when you thought nothing could make the US war in Afghanistan get any worse, it has. American public support for the war is at an all time low, more and more people want to call it a day in Kabul and bring the troops home, Afghan civilian causalities continue to mount, and the question
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