07/07/2004

PUBLIC SERVICE (postponed due to Euro 2004): Women Lib, Afghan way.

Mrs. Neelab Kanishka «fled Afghanistan for Pakistan with her family in 1989 at the age of 11».
Now she returned and she's acting «as envoy of a discount Internet retailer located in, of all places, Salt Lake City», named Worldstock.
«These days, Worldstock employs more than 1,500 Afghan artisans among a worldwide network of craft workers.»
«In Afghanistan, Kaniskha's network of suppliers consists largely of women who were prevented from working outside their homes under the Taliban regime. These days, many of these women make substantially more money than men.
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