Women, girls increasingly victims in Afghan war, U.N. says Afghan women and girls are increasingly victims of violence with a 20 percent increase last year in the number killed or injured even though the number of civilian casualties fell for the first time in years, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Reinforcing fears about a rise in insecurity as foreign combat troops prepare to leave by next year, the United Nations said the...
ankakh February 19, 2013 17:01