It was a disaster for the rights of women, who were no longer allowed to work, attend school, or go out in public unless wearing a full burka. One of the postitive developments of the new government installed after the invasion was that many of the rights of women were restored.
But now....a new law was passed and signed by President Harmid Kharzai which will place new restrictions on women. Read on to discover what basic rights of women this law would infringe upon:
Opinion | Afghanistan's women again face Taliban oppression | Seattle Times Newspaper
On a related subject, because of the war and other harsh conditions, about 1 in 7 Afghan women are widows. Unfortunately, these widows are often denied basic human rights by a society that shuns them as outcasts.
Click on the following link to watch the video from the New York Times:
On a related subject, because of the war and other harsh conditions, about 1 in 7 Afghan women are widows. Unfortunately, these widows are often denied basic human rights by a society that shuns them as outcasts.
Click on the following link to watch the video from the New York Times:
A Man's World
After three decades of war, Afghanistan is one of the world's widow capitals. They are ridiculed as prostitutes when they go shopping, and many are unable to rent their own homes.
1 comment:
I feel like people are very unaware of what the troops in Afghanistan are doing. Their presence in Afghanistan allows the civilians to feel safer in their own homes. These women have lost so much, their husbands, children, homes, and jobs. They have lost little things that we as American's take for granite everyday. We need to appreciate the little in life that we have. They have so many rules that they have to follow and such little things can cause them to feel even more pressure. The last thing they need the public to think about them is that they are prostitutes.
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