Afghani Women Under The Taliban
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Long before September 11, 2001, the world community was aware that under the rule of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, the situation of women was at best dire and at worst intolerable. Deborah Ellis (10) reported in March 2001 in a series of interviews she conducted with women living under the oppressive and brutal Taliban regime, that what was revealed was a story so horrifying and so terrible that it is difficult to understand why the civilized world allowed the Taliban to remain in power. This report will examine the conditions imposed upon women by the Taliban during their tenure û thankfully ended û and will argue that the distorted version of Islam practiced by this group was focused in many ways upon the containment and abuse of women, who were victims of what Noy Thrupkaew (18) calls "gender apartheid." The Taliban existed, it would appear, to establish a complex system of rules and regulations based loosely upon their own interpretation of the Quran and to ensure that a "pure" and "holy" society would be created in those parts of Afghanistan that they controlled (Time 35). All members of society, regardless of gender, were subject to the constant oversight (in public and even in private) of the forces and representatives of the Taliban "Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice." Banned or declared unclean for men, women and children were: consuming pork, pig oil and lobster; attending movies or ownin
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42 percent of the women living in Kabul at the time of the survey suffering from clinically diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. Many more had significant anxiety symptoms, and a substantial number reported having been physically abused and/or tortured by Taliban officials and followers. Malnutrition was a constant complaint from mothers with young children, with 85,000 childhood deaths per year due to diarrheal diseases. Women were found to have access to only 20 percent of all health services in the Taliban-controlled regions of Afghanistan, with significant health consequence and effects.
Rasekh, et al (2, 449B), in a follow-up study of these women, found that some 53 percent of the survey participants had on recent occasions experienced an illness and that they had been prevented from obtaining medical care. The respondents also reported numerous human rights abuses including harassment, physical abuse, and restricted activity. Two women who were disabled were detained by Taliban religious police or security forces and beaten for entering a public building through a designated male entrance.
When women were detained by the police, 36 or 84 percent reported being beaten and several others reported being tortured. W
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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page)
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