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From the day the Taliban marched into Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, the their supporters have sought to expunge women from public life. In a country where women previously had to work while the men fought, the regime has barred females from taking any job outside the home or even leaving their houses without a male relative acting as a chaperone. Education of women is forbidden. Foreign-aid agencies have been forbidden to offer any of their services or assistance directly to females. Violence against women occur frequently, including beatings, rapes, forced marriages, disappearances, kidnapings, and killings. Under Taliban rule, women were stripped of their basic human rights, such as, the right to their own bodies, the right to speak, to give and receive health care, education, the right to work and walk down the street. The enforcement of the gender-apartheid law of the Taliban has totally deprived women of their basic human's rights: to education, to work, to travel, to health, to legal recourse, to recreation, and the right to be a woman. The Taliban are a group of soldiers trained in Pakistani Islamic Schools who believe that they are the soldiers of pure, fundamentalist Islam and the saviors of all Muslims. Accordin
The right to health is denied to all women in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule. A surgical team containing a male member cannot operate on a woman. When a woman has a major medical emergency, she is still denied the right to receive help. According to The Times of India, (Nov. 6, 1998), Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued a report on the plight of Afghan women. Their discoveries included 97% of the women are suffering from major depression, and 25% of them often contemplate suicide. According to a report published in The Washington Post, 87% reported a decrease in access to health services because no chaperon was available, or if they had no they did not own a veil due to expenses. Suicide is common among the Afghan women. 20-year-old Laida Omid, daughter of Hidar Karim, burned herself with petrol as a way out of all her miseries on April 24, 2000. Her family took her to the hospital in Herat, but the facility was lacking a physician and proper medical equipment. She was then taken to Iran, but it was too late to save Laila from her self-inflicted burns. (http://women3rdworld.about.com/newsissues/women3rdworld/library/week Women are not allowed to travel. They can not even go outside the house alone. Women can’t leave the confines of their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative. They must also paint their windows to hide themselves from view. Upon traveling, women are subject to violence against them. Beatings, rapes, forced marriages, disappearances, kidnapings, and killings occur daily. The officers of the Taliban enforce the laws with violent punishments, and in particular aim towards females.
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