[news] Afghan Women Boxers 'Fighting for Peace'

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

...[I]n agreeing to come to box these young women are doing more than exorcising the ghosts of a dark period in Afghan history...The training is sponsored by a peace group who want to give women more self-respect, and reclaim boxing as a sport in a country scarred by conflict - making martial arts constructive and not destructive...They call it "fighting for peace". 

  


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