In Afghanistan, like most Middle Eastern countries, women are often under-estimated and approached with condescending comments and jokes. Fear from men has been injected into their veins from childhood. Most importantly the sense of communication, empathy, action, helping and uplifting of each other has been stripped away from them by stoning them to death, killing them, sometimes even burying them alive.
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