Sharifullah Sharafat is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan.
War, poverty, and an entrenched patriarchy are forcing an increasing number of Afghan women, mostly direct victims of violence, to beg on the streets for survival.
In Uruzgan, a remote province in southern Afghanistan, many victims of alleged atrocities by the Australian security forces say Canberra's recent probe does not cover the full extent of what they say are extensive abuses.
