Essay On Taliban Women

Under the Taliban rule, from 1991 to 2001, much of the Afghanistan population were heavily oppressed. The Taliban, formed in the early 1990’s, resisted the Soviet rule over the nation. As the years progressed from the fall of the Soviet Union, the Taliban began to seize control of territories and inflicted their governs on the people residing under their rule. Many of the laws enforced on the citizens restricted their daily lives. Men had to follow numerous guidelines for every aspect of their life. However, women had little to no basic human rights in the eyes of the Taliban. Seeing no importance of women except for childbearing, they are kept out of the public eye and show almost no importance to any aspect in the nation. The discrimination
In the 21st century, with the help of foreign involvement and continuing fall of the Taliban of much of the territory, women are rising up from the ashes after years of war and receiving the public outcry much need for the women of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan women still face basic human rights issues. In countless accounts, women are a subject to brutal violence and hate. Afghanistan has staggering maternal mortality rates, poor and inaccessible health care, decades of conflicts, and “near total lack of economic rights,” rendering the country “a very dangerous place for women”. With insufficient health care for women and no health education for people, women are placed in a position where they have nowhere to go in terms of the health of their own body (“Afghanistan Year 1380”). Years of war left behind enormous poverty, failing infrastructure, and a
The drastic change since the Taliban’s control is highly noticeable for women and there has been major improvements since then. According to Zulaikha Rafiq of Telegraph newspaper, “during the time of the Taliban, many women were simply invisible. They had to be accompanied by men in public, and they could be punished even for appearing outdoors without a male escort. Girls were not allowed to receive an education, except for a few “lucky ones” who studied in underground schools.” Today’s constitution of Afghanistan which was ratified in January 2004, affords equal rights to men and women. “Article 22 of the constitutions states: “Any kind of discrimination and privilege between citizens of Afghanistan are prohibited. The citizens of Afghanistan -whether man or women- have equal rights and duties before the law.” The Ministry of Education, with support from USAID and other donors, has built more than 13,000 schools, recruited and trained more than 186,000 teachers, and increased net enrollment rates for school-aged children past 56 percent. Today, more than 8 million students are enrolled in school, including more than 2.5 million girls. Afghan women are singing, writing, running businesses, getting degrees, teaching, learning, managing non-profit organizations, organizing protests and finding thousands of new ways to tell their stories.” (USAID). An access to education is an access to every potential a person