'This publication does not have the ambition to present a complete or definite study on the gender dimensions of racial discrimination. It provides an overview which examines a set of fundamental issues on the intersectionality between gender and racial discrimination. This is enough to understand how women experience multiple discrimination and what challenges lie for us at Durban to ensure we conclude with a declaration and programme of action which live up to the high ideals and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: universality and indivisibility of all human rights, equality and non-discrimination.'
This report is a result of Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children interviews with returnee women and girls. Sixty returnee women and girls from rural areas of Herat were interviewed between July 26th and August 7th, 2000.