Promoting Women's Rights in Afghanistan

(06 June 09 - RV) A suicide bomber killed three Afghan civilians, including a woman and a child, and wounded 11 others in the southern border town of Spin Boldak today.

Violence has swelled in Afghanistan despite the fact that the number of foreign troops has increased to almost 80,000 this year.

Since U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban's Islamist government in late 2001, the country has been working towards strengthening its democracy and improving human rights.

Sumit Bisarya is the Afghanistan Program Coordinator at the International Development Law Organization. He noted an improvement in women’s rights during his recent visit to Afghanistan.