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Wazhma Frogh, is currently a Postgraduate Fellow in International Development and Human Rights Law, Warwick University, UK. The recepient of the 2009 International Woman of Courage Award, Wazhma has been actively promoting Afghan women’s human rights for the past 13 years.
The Emerging Afghan Media: Beyond the Stereotyping of Women?
Originally posted December 2009
For the past 30 or more years, media content in Afghanistan mostly has been controlled by the central government and its supporters. During this period, as throughout the 20th century, the most important and widely available forms of media have been national radio and television. However, rural perspectives and the realities of rural life have been conspicuously absent from most media content. Moreover, because of traditionally rigid gender roles, Afghan women have had very limited or almost no access to media and information sources.
