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Our People .

Writer Karen Byrne

Karen Byrne is a writer and editor at Chemonics International.

by Karen Byrne


It’s Not the News, It’s You.

If you follow media reporting on women in Afghanistan — I do, but only in English — you probably experience a flood of violent emotions. Shock and revulsion at the seemingly endless string of brutal domestic and public attacks against women and girls. Fury that the police and courts often do nothing, or even protect…