Women In Trump’s Afghanistan, Impact of Women If Trump Cuts Off Pakistan, And India’s Top Court Strikes Down Islamic Instant Divorce
By Worldview StaffWomen In Trump’s Afghanistan, Impact of Women If Trump Cuts Off Pakistan, And India’s Top Court Strikes Down Islamic Instant Divorce
By Worldview Staff
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On today’s show:
- Najla Ayoubi, a human rights activist, lawyer, and former judge from Afghanistan, joins us to discuss how women’s programs in Afghanistan have long depended on U.S. aid to stay afloat.
- We’re joined by attorney Rafia Zakaria, author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan, to discuss how many terrorists are now recruiting women who are being turned away from defunded women’s programs in Pakistan.
- We speak with Srimati Basu, a professor of gender and women’s studies and anthropology at the University of Kentucky, about how India’s Supreme Court banned the practice of “instant divorce” by Muslim men.