Alumni Publication: "Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Will the Taliban Adhere to CEDAW?" by Shanthie Mariet D'Souza
On 8 October 2024, The Diplomat published NESA Center alumna Shanthie Mariet D'Souza's latest article, "Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Will the Taliban Adhere to CEDAW?"
"In 2003, Afghanistan ratified the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, but the Taliban do not see their government as a continuation of the former Afghan regime," writes D'Souza.
About the Author
Dr. Shanthie Mariet D'Souza is a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Chair at the School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; Founder of Mantraya, Visiting faculty at the Naval War College, Goa, India, and a Non-Resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington DC. She has worked in governmental and non-governmental sectors and conducted field research in various provinces of Afghanistan for more than a decade. Email: smdsouza@umass.edu. Tweets: @shanmariet.
About the Publisher
The Diplomat is the premier international current-affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region. Since its launch in 2002, The Diplomat has been dedicated to quality analysis and commentary on events occurring in Asia and around the world.
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