Check out Sheryl McCarthy's piece on the US delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women last week--In U.S. World Policy, Women Lose Out.

"It's a sad commentary that a government that's willing to sacrifice lives to protect human rights in Afghanistan and Iraq won't insist on women's right to vote, to run for office, drive, and to be free of court-imposed sentences of gang rape in the countries we call our friends."