Here's what $1.5 billion for women's rights in Afghanistan gets you

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American Thinker:

America has spent $1.5 billion on women's rights in Afghanistan. Here are the results:

 

In rural areas, nothing has changed. Women are still imprisoned in their homes. Despite spending at least $1.5 billion on empowering Afghan women, the country is still viewed as one of the worst in the world for women.

 

The West has helped Afghanistan to expand and improve maternal health care, as well as open up schools that girls can attend in urban and rural areas. But as Nimmi Gowrinathan, a visiting professor at City College in New York, said of educating girls, "That's the reality until the sixth grade, when they get married."

 

... a major investigation by BuzzFeed, released in July 2015, found female enrollment had been overstated by an average of 40 percent at U.S.-funded schools in Afghanistan. The investigation, based on visits to 50 U.S.-funded schools, internal U.S. and Afghan documents and more than 150 interviews, also found faulty construction and widespread corruption. At least a tenth of the schools were "ghosts," meaning they were either closed or never existed in the first place.

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45 WEIRD BANS ON WOMEN IN IRAN

 

1. Women are prohibited from taking selfies with soccer players. Specifically, Iran’s “moral committee” has banned women from taking selfies with famous soccer players.

 

2. Iranian women are prohibited from riding bicycles. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently issued an Islamic fatwa regarding officially banning women from riding bicycles. He argued that "riding bicycles often attracts the attention of men and exposes the society to corruption, and thus contravenes women's chastity, and it must be abandoned,” according to Iran’s state-run media.

 

3. Coffee shops are prohibited from hiring women. According to Iran’s police, women are banned from working in any cafés.

 

4. Iranian Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslim men. But Iranian Muslim men can marry non-Muslim women.

 

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