Women's Rights In Afghanistan
Women's Rights:
Women's Rights in Afghanistan have been an issue for many decades. After the Soviet occupied government diminished and the Taliban came into power, women's rights also diminished. Women in Afghanistan are looked at as nothing but homemakers and a means of reproduction. The horrific beatings of women have become a very common thing within Afghanistan and the Taliban. Even after the Taliban was removed Women's rights became insignificant. The women of Afghanistan have had to endure decades of torture, while new governments are being put in with the same type of Taliban-like laws. There never has been any reliable government in Afghanistan for the past two decades. Of the 16 million Afghans at the end of the 70s, over two …show more content…
Such a view has been elevated to official policy with the coming to power of the Taliban. Not only the Jehadis (Northern Alliance) and Taliban but all Islamists target women's rights as a first priority. With the coming to power of Islamic fundamentalists in 1992, women's right to full participation in social, economic, cultural and political life of the country was changed and later on denied by the Taliban. Women were deprived of the right to education , of the right to work, of the right to, of the right to health care, of the right to legal recourse , of the right to recreation, and of the right to being a human …show more content…
With the fundamentalists' war mentality, and ethnic hatred and religious bigotry, all areas that come under Taliban control are seen as occupied land and the inhabitants are treated however they felt necessary. Sexual crimes against women, gang raping, lust murders, abductions of young females, and blackmail of families with eligible daughters were common during the rule of the pre-Taliban fundamentalists, who now have high positions in the government of Hamid Karzai and are free to brutalize Afghan women in areas under their rule. The Taliban and Al-Qaida are again in power and generously supported by the US government. It has completely shattered the dream of the people for liberation from the Taliban tyranny. Afghan people will never forgive them for the crimes they committed while in power from 1992 to 1996. In Kabul 65,000 were killed during these years. Some of them talk about elections and women's rights, but they are just as ignorant as the
Women's Rights in Afghanistan have been an issue for many decades. After the Soviet occupied government diminished and the Taliban came into power, women's rights also diminished. Women in Afghanistan are looked at as nothing but homemakers and a means of reproduction. The horrific beatings of women have become a very common thing within Afghanistan and the Taliban. Even after the Taliban was removed Women's rights became insignificant. The women of Afghanistan have had to endure decades of torture, while new governments are being put in with the same type of Taliban-like laws. There never has been any reliable government in Afghanistan for the past two decades. Of the 16 million Afghans at the end of the 70s, over two …show more content…
Such a view has been elevated to official policy with the coming to power of the Taliban. Not only the Jehadis (Northern Alliance) and Taliban but all Islamists target women's rights as a first priority. With the coming to power of Islamic fundamentalists in 1992, women's right to full participation in social, economic, cultural and political life of the country was changed and later on denied by the Taliban. Women were deprived of the right to education , of the right to work, of the right to, of the right to health care, of the right to legal recourse , of the right to recreation, and of the right to being a human …show more content…
With the fundamentalists' war mentality, and ethnic hatred and religious bigotry, all areas that come under Taliban control are seen as occupied land and the inhabitants are treated however they felt necessary. Sexual crimes against women, gang raping, lust murders, abductions of young females, and blackmail of families with eligible daughters were common during the rule of the pre-Taliban fundamentalists, who now have high positions in the government of Hamid Karzai and are free to brutalize Afghan women in areas under their rule. The Taliban and Al-Qaida are again in power and generously supported by the US government. It has completely shattered the dream of the people for liberation from the Taliban tyranny. Afghan people will never forgive them for the crimes they committed while in power from 1992 to 1996. In Kabul 65,000 were killed during these years. Some of them talk about elections and women's rights, but they are just as ignorant as the