article_snippet.sent: The brutal murder of Farkhunda, a young woman in Afghanistan, whose body was burnt and callously chucked into a river in Kabul, shocked the world.
article_snippet.sent: But what also made international headlines was the fact that for the first time in history, women in Afghanistan became pallbearers, hoisting the victim's coffin on women in Afghanistan shoulders draped with headscarves, under the gazes of men; unreservedly sobbing and shouting messages of women's solidarity as women's solidarity marched along the streets.
article_snippet.sent: In a country ranked in 2011 by a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll as the most dangerous place in the world for women, this feminist act seemed perilous.
article_snippet.sent: In 2013, the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released statistics that showed the number of women killed in Afghanistan had increased by 20% from the previous year, although the number of civilian victims had decreased, said Amnesty in the report.
article_snippet.sent: The Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General in Afghanistan at the time, Jan Kubis, told the U.N. Security Council that "the majority (of women killed) is linked to domestic violence, tradition, culture of Afghanistan.
article_snippet.sent: Taking part in Farkhunda's funeral and protests against her death, her tells CNN that despite the onslaught of violence against Afghan women over the years, this was the worst case.
article_snippet.sent: So the women of Afghanistan showed that we will not keep silent anymore...
article_snippet.sent: Surprisingly, her says that male onlookers supported male onlookers mission, although male onlookers are in the minority overall in Afghanistan.
article_snippet.sent: Women's activism in Afghanistan is nothing new --