Linked with All Afghan Women Union AAWU, with the Afghan Women’s Organisation AWO. And with this Afghanistan pictures.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « I look with pride at the Afghan women’s participation in the Presidential elections. This is an indication that our decades-long efforts have not been brought to naught ».
She says also: « The protests of women against inequality are considered immoral, and it is considered immoral if she embraces the rule of law, travels to another country, or removes the veil. A woman is considered virtuous if she is silent and submissive, and remains in her role as a tool of procreation and pleasure for the man. Only in her role of taking care of her family is she considered good ».
And she says: « In the Koran, women have their own place, but fundamentalist warlords abuse their power. They do not accept the Koran’s law or even the national law. Girls are married very young, sometimes when still in their mother’s womb, sometimes to very old men. Before she can breathe the air, she’s a prisoner. To marry by her will is considered immoral, like prostitution ».
Read: Initial General Assembly of Civil Society & Human Rights Network CSHRN Kabul, 9th August 2004.
Suraya Parlika – Afghanistan
She works for the Peace Circle, the Democratic Women’s Organization DWO, and the All Afghan Women Union AAWU.
Read: Afghanistan, Women Still in Terror.
Excerpt: … « We fought with our lives to get women’s rights into our constitution. Forty-two percent of women voted. » In the new constitution, women have equal rights with men; but the law has not changed the way women are treated.
