AFGHANISTAN: Rare protest by Afghan women

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Updated January 31, 2008 21:13:11

More than 500 women have held a rare protest in the conservative Southern Afghan city of Kandahar, over the kidnapping of an American aid worker and her Afghan driver. It's not known who abducted Asian Rural Life Development Foundation worker, Cyd Mizell and her driver Abdul Hadi. While kidnappings are common in Afghanistan, abductions of foreigners are rare. The Kandahar rally came a day after the US-based Atlantic Council warned Afghanistan risks becoming a failed state unless more is done to tackle the deteriorating security situation.

Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speakers: Professor William Maley, Director of the Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University; Shelley Ryan, Asian Rural Life Development Foundation; Afrasiab Khattak, chief of Pakistan Human Right's Commission; Soraya Paikan, former Afghan women's lawyer and Profesional Association head, now working with the University of Kabul

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