Aid Groups: Afghan Women's Rights Under Threat

Afghan women shop in a busy Kabul market, on May 1, 2007. Despite advances in women's rights since the fall of the Taliban regime, most Afghan women, especially outside the capital, still opt to don the all-enveloping cloak known as the burqa. (AP)

5 Afghan women shop in a busy Kabul market, on May 1, 2007. Despite advances in women's rights since the fall of the Taliban regime, most Afghan women, especially outside the capital, still opt to don the all-enveloping cloak known as the burqa. (AP)

Two women examine the cap of a burqa in a shop in Kabul on April 17, 2007. Despite advances in women's rights since the U.S.-led invasion of late 2001 led to the toppling of the Taliban regime, most Afghan women, especially outside the capital, still opt

6 Two women examine the cap of a burqa in a shop in Kabul on April 17, 2007. Despite advances in women's rights since the U.S.-led invasion of late 2001 led to the toppling of the Taliban regime, most Afghan women, especially outside the capital, still opt

7 This photograph is taken through the eye-hole webbing of a burqa veil in front of a clothing store in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, May 3, 2007. (AP)

An Afghan woman holds flowers during a fair to mark Women's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2007. At the time, roughly two out of five Afghan marriages were forced, and 45 percent of women are married by the age of 18. According to UNIFEM, at least on

8 An Afghan woman holds flowers during a fair to mark Women's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2007. At the time, roughly two out of five Afghan marriages were forced, and 45 percent of women are married by the age of 18. According to UNIFEM, at least on

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Aid Groups: Afghan Women's Rights Under Threat