MaggieOK
09-18-2001, 12:22 PM
I'm not a feminist, but I find these details horrific.
http://www.feminist.org/afghan/facts.html
Snippet:
Gender Apartheid - The Elimination of Women's Rights
Upon seizing power, the Taliban instituted a system of gender apartheid effectively thrusting the women of Afghanistan into a state of virtual house arrest. Under Taliban rule women have been stripped of their visibility, voice, and mobility. When they took control in 1996, the Taliban initially imposed strict edicts that:
Banished women from the work force
Closed schools to girls in cities and expelled women from universities
Prohibited women from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative
Ordered the publicly visible windows of women's houses painted black and forced women to wear the burqa (or chadari) - which completely shrouds the body, leaving only a small mesh-covered opening through which to see
Prohibited women and girls from being examined by male physicians while at the same time, prohibited most female doctors and nurses from working. (Currently there are a few, selected female doctors allowed to operate in segregated wards.)
Women have been brutally beaten, publicly flogged, and killed for violating Taliban decrees. Even after international condemnation, the Taliban has made only slight changes. Some say it is progress that a few women doctors and nurses are working, even while hospitals still have segregated wards for women; that in Kabul and other cities, a few home schools for girls operate, although only in secret. In addition, women who conduct home schools are risking their lives or a severe beating. But the overall reality of the tragic plight of Afghan women and girls has remained virtually unchanged.
Gender Apartheid -- The Reality of Women and Girls
A woman who defied Taliban orders by running a home school for girls was killed in front of her family and friends.
A woman caught trying to flee Afghanistan with a man not related to her was stoned to death for adultery.
An elderly woman was brutally beaten with a metal cable until her leg was broken because her ankle was accidentally showing from underneath her burqa.
Women have died of curable ailments because male doctors were not allowed to treat them.
Two women accused of prostitution were publicly hung.
Taliban Law Is In Opposition To Islam
Prior to the Civil War and Taliban control, especially in Kabul, the capital, women in Afghanistan were educated and employed: 50% of the students and 60% of the teachers at Kabul University were women, and 70% of school teachers, 50% of civilian government workers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul were women.
http://www.feminist.org/afghan/facts.html
Snippet:
Gender Apartheid - The Elimination of Women's Rights
Upon seizing power, the Taliban instituted a system of gender apartheid effectively thrusting the women of Afghanistan into a state of virtual house arrest. Under Taliban rule women have been stripped of their visibility, voice, and mobility. When they took control in 1996, the Taliban initially imposed strict edicts that:
Banished women from the work force
Closed schools to girls in cities and expelled women from universities
Prohibited women from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative
Ordered the publicly visible windows of women's houses painted black and forced women to wear the burqa (or chadari) - which completely shrouds the body, leaving only a small mesh-covered opening through which to see
Prohibited women and girls from being examined by male physicians while at the same time, prohibited most female doctors and nurses from working. (Currently there are a few, selected female doctors allowed to operate in segregated wards.)
Women have been brutally beaten, publicly flogged, and killed for violating Taliban decrees. Even after international condemnation, the Taliban has made only slight changes. Some say it is progress that a few women doctors and nurses are working, even while hospitals still have segregated wards for women; that in Kabul and other cities, a few home schools for girls operate, although only in secret. In addition, women who conduct home schools are risking their lives or a severe beating. But the overall reality of the tragic plight of Afghan women and girls has remained virtually unchanged.
Gender Apartheid -- The Reality of Women and Girls
A woman who defied Taliban orders by running a home school for girls was killed in front of her family and friends.
A woman caught trying to flee Afghanistan with a man not related to her was stoned to death for adultery.
An elderly woman was brutally beaten with a metal cable until her leg was broken because her ankle was accidentally showing from underneath her burqa.
Women have died of curable ailments because male doctors were not allowed to treat them.
Two women accused of prostitution were publicly hung.
Taliban Law Is In Opposition To Islam
Prior to the Civil War and Taliban control, especially in Kabul, the capital, women in Afghanistan were educated and employed: 50% of the students and 60% of the teachers at Kabul University were women, and 70% of school teachers, 50% of civilian government workers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul were women.