Afghan shiitkam permit to leave the house without permission.

Signed by the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, a discriminatory law that establishes the rules of family life for the Shiite minority, will be reviewed by the Ministry of Justice. In the article, which had been criticized for infringing the rights of women, will be subject to some amendments, reports Reuters.
Although the bill was approved by the two Houses of Parliament and signed by the President, he has not entered into force as has not been published in the official press. According to the Agency, Minister of Justice of Afghanistan, the work on the document continues.
The Afghan constitution gives men and women the same rights, but it also provides an opportunity to establish special laws governing family life Shiite minority in the religious traditions and customs. After some of the provisions of the document became known human rights organizations, the law became a subject of debate and tough criticism around the world.
The Ministry of Justice said that through amendments planned to increase the marriage age for women from nine to sixteen years, and to allow the Shiite women to leave the house, contact a doctor, come to work and study without the permission of her husband, which was prescribed by the first option law.
Protests by women's rights activists was also to discriminate against women in marriage, divorce, adoption, treatment in the courts and in other cases, where the advantage obviously is given to men. In particular, the law requires the wife to fulfill her husband's sexual desires and regulates the frequency of intimate relationships, which critics say the document on the "legitimate right to rape" in the Shiite families.
Because the message is not clear whether the Afghan government to make changes to this article. At the same time, defenders of the law contend that the document plays an important role in protecting the rights of the Shiite minority in the traditional way of life. The fight for its passage lasted more than two years.
As stated earlier MP Afghanistan Shinkay Zahine Karohail, a document which she described as a "secret agreement", was adopted in haste and with little discussion. She believed that its purpose is to attract voters on the side of a Shia Karzai in the upcoming August 2009 presidential election.
Sam Hamid Karzai said the criticism of law in the West due to its mistranslation and erroneous interpretation of many of its provisions.