Afgan Crisis- Taliban – women condition
Taliban
The Taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the prominent faction in the Afghan civil war and largely consisted of students ( talib) from pashtun areas. The Taliban knows as the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan (IEA) ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. It was the toughest time for women in Afghanistan. The group paused access to women’s education, employment and health services. However women officially gained equality under the 1964 constitution and for now it has been feared to be taken away.
Condition of women
Since it was the toughest time for women during Taliban rule(1996-2001) but then after the gain of equality women’s condition were improved as per report.
As per the report ” Taliban’s war on women: A health and human rights crisis in Afghanistan” by physicians for human rights, a distinguished women rights organisations in the US stated that before the Taliban captured kabul women accounted for 70 per cent of all teachers, about 50 per cent of civil servants and 40 per cent of medical doctors in Afghanistan.
Since the Taliban seized most of the Afghanistan in 2021, there are many concerns.
Women’s in Afghanistan were forced to wear burqa at all times in public because according to one Taliban spokeman ” The face of a women is source of corruption.”
and only leave the house with male relative companion. Women’s are not allowed to work also banned from attending schools, even the voting rights were taken away. Women’s are to stay at house most of the time. Inorder to prevent women from being seen from streets windows on the ground and first floors of residential buildings should be painted or covered. Also prohibited from appearing on radio television or in any public gathering and media.
Co-education is aslo banned in Taliban rules women’s are meant to taught only girls child because ” It’s the main root of evil.” said one spokeman of Taliban.
Conclusion
The notion speaks that the Taliban will change their ways which have been greeted with deep skepticism.
Many womens stayed at home worried about running into a conflict of local Taliban’s.
Kabul residents have been tearing down the advertisement and the magazine’s that showed women without headscarves recently.
The last rule of Taliban made restrictions on their behaviour, outfit movement thus created fear and doubts in the heart of people.
They drove in tucks, publicly humiliating and whipping women who did not follow their rules.
But for this generation of afgan girls who have been studying in schools and nurturing dreams , the Taliban era is ancient history and for them it’s like turning back the clock and is nearly incomprehensible fate.
Thus, the return of Taliban has made an uneven and disturbed environment in Afghanistan.
Article by Istuti Chettri.
