Women's Rights Violations in Afghanistan
Women's Rights Violations in Afghanistan
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.” It means that without equality, there is no real end to a conflict. Equality is one of the many human rights every person is entitled to. It is never acceptable to deny people their basic human rights; however, this has occurred frequently throughout history. A wide variety of groups have been discriminated against through violations of human rights, but women have faced this hardship the most. Times have changed, and many women now possess their deserved human rights, but others are less fortunate. In the book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, human rights violations against women occur regularly. When young Laila considers marrying instead of gaining an education, her father talks her out of it. To reassure her, he says, “when the war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...no chance” (Hosseini 103). All of the women in A Thousand Splendid Suns are affected by a variety of human rights violations. Women in Afghanistan face intolerable, cruel treatment on a daily basis and this must come to an end.
An array of human rights are being deprived from women. Inequality, sexual abuse, denied access to education, and inability to stand up for what they believe in or deserve are all women's rights that are being denied through these violations. No matter what the circumstances, every individual deserves access to an education, freedom of speech, security, and most of all, equality.
Though men are often seen superiorly, women deserve to be treated equally because both genders are the same species: human. Anyone would be “hard-pressed to publicly make and defend the contrary argument that women are not human” (Bunch and Frost). Human rights apply to all humans regardless of race, size,
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.” It means that without equality, there is no real end to a conflict. Equality is one of the many human rights every person is entitled to. It is never acceptable to deny people their basic human rights; however, this has occurred frequently throughout history. A wide variety of groups have been discriminated against through violations of human rights, but women have faced this hardship the most. Times have changed, and many women now possess their deserved human rights, but others are less fortunate. In the book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, human rights violations against women occur regularly. When young Laila considers marrying instead of gaining an education, her father talks her out of it. To reassure her, he says, “when the war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...no chance” (Hosseini 103). All of the women in A Thousand Splendid Suns are affected by a variety of human rights violations. Women in Afghanistan face intolerable, cruel treatment on a daily basis and this must come to an end.
An array of human rights are being deprived from women. Inequality, sexual abuse, denied access to education, and inability to stand up for what they believe in or deserve are all women's rights that are being denied through these violations. No matter what the circumstances, every individual deserves access to an education, freedom of speech, security, and most of all, equality.
Though men are often seen superiorly, women deserve to be treated equally because both genders are the same species: human. Anyone would be “hard-pressed to publicly make and defend the contrary argument that women are not human” (Bunch and Frost). Human rights apply to all humans regardless of race, size,
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