For the Taliban anyone questioning these edicts, which have no validity in the Koran, is tantamount to questioning Islam itself, even though the Prophet Mohammed's first task was to emancipate women (Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia 107).
Women in Afghanistan are denied the right to education. Girls and women are prohibited from attending schools and universities. All schools closed, and home schooling is strictly prohibited. Adult literacy rate is 27% for men and 5.6% for women. Girls have access to formal education in only one province, Badakhshan. According to Refugees.org, education is about at the same stage of development now as it was in 1955. The illiteracy rate is currently at 85 percent. .
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Afghan women are rejected the right to work. The Labor Law of 1984 ensured equal job opportunities for everybody including women. By 1992, women constituted up to 50 percent of work force (Centlivres-Demont, 1994, p.351). Women were serving in the army and thousand of women served in the police until the Taliban came into power. Because women are now forced to remain in their houses, they may not go out and seek jobs in the outside world. According to Peter Marsden in The Taliban: War. Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan, women were advised that it was their responsibility to bring up the next generation of Muslims. To this end, they were prohibited from working. (46).
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.
The right to health is denied to all women in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule.