"Time" Editor on Afghan Woman Cover: "It's a Very Scary Image"

In deciding whether or not to put the young woman on the cover, Rick Stengel, managing editor of Time, said, "I just felt that I really wanted us to weigh in in a powerful way with one particular point of view."=>

Stengel added, "I wanted people to be confronted with the idea that there are consequences of us leaving."

Zama Coursen-Neff, deputy director of the Children's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, said that woman's rights have to be at the forefront of any kind of "reconciliation with the Taliban."=http:="">

She added, "life for women in Afghanistan is much better than it was ten years ago under the Taliban."=http:>

Couric asked if Afghan President Hamid Karzai, was the "right partner to move women's rights forward?"

Coursen-Neff responded, "Hamid Karzai doesn't have a strong track record on women's rights."=http:>

Recent Reports from Human Rights Watch:

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The "Ten-Dollar Talib" and Women's Rights Report

"We Have the Promises of the World"