posted 03/14/11 11:13 AM | updated 03/14/11 11:19 AM
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Benefit screening of 'IN-JUSTICE" at the NexStage Theatre March 24

Silent auction of framed photographs by famed photographer Steve McCurry, Karen Day and Farzana Wahidy (first Afghan woman to work for the AP service after the fall of the Taliban.)

This is PREMIERE of a 60-minute documentary about the women and children sentenced to prison for so called moral crimes in Afghanistan. Imagine refusing to marry your rapist and then being sent to jail, with your child --and your father testifing against you in order to maintain the "honor" of the family. This is one of many examples of the gender-based bias that continues to exist in the Afghan justice system, even as we are spending $100 million to attempt to impart International Rule of Law in an ancient, Islamic society which deems women inferior by birth.

Humanitarian Journalist Karen Day, who started Afghan Women’s Justice Project to help fund legal aid for these women, has been in Afghanistan several times touring prisons in the past two years.  She will host the event.  Contact: Karen@karenday.com

A trailer of film can be seen at www.awjp.com 

Americans cannot donate directly to Afghan NGOs for tax deductions, so Afghan Women's Justice Project serves as a tax-deductible channel directly to these important NGOs:

www.awec.info    www.womenforafghanwomen.org  www.childlightfoundation.org

 100% profit of the event will go to the above listed NGOs working to improve the lives of the imprisoned women and children.

What: Benefit screening of  ‘IN-JUSTICE” produced by Tin Roof Productions in collaboration with European Union and directed by Clementine Malpas.

Where: nexStage Theatre, Ketchum

When: 7 p.m. Thursday, March 24

Cost: $25, which includes an uber- fashion statement NOT GUILTY t-shirt. (featured in Marie Clare magazine)

 

 

 

 

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