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September 15, 2009
Metrics of success
An antidote to my usual doom-mongering, Terry Glavin lists accomplishments - and, I would argue, lowers expectations - in Afghanistan (via Blazing Cat Fur).
Eight years later, millions of girls are in school. The country has a constitutional government that reserves a quarter of its parliament to women. There are a dozen universities, several dozen newspapers, radio stations and television stations, and one in six Afghans owns a cellular phone. Five million refugees have returned. More than 80 per cent of the people have access to basic medical services. Almost all children have been immunized against polio and childhood diseases.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 15, 2009 08:07 AM
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Well, it's good that millions of women are getting educated. We can only hope they aren't being educated accept starvation if they don't put out, and to accept that in the event of divorce they lose all custody rights and guardianship over their own children.
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at September 15, 2009 09:51 AM
