Human Rights Commission: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch: In Afghanistan, those onscreen images are often considered pornography, according to The Star. Afghanistans human rights commission recently said that violence against women is at an all-time high. Human Rights Watch says 95 per cent of girls and half of women in Afghan jails have been convicted of moral crimes. The Afghan government has considered stoning as a punishment for adultery and A glimpse of a womans shoulder. A long shot showing the curves of her bare back. Yet during the filming of The Icy Sun , a movie about a young woman trying to make it in Afghanistans fledgling film industry, actress Fereshta Kazemi agreed to show her shoulder and back. She believed it would be a much-needed addition to the debate about womens rights in the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.