taliban's women

The article” AFTER THE ATTACK; Extremists Put Own Twist on Faith” written by Teresa Watanabe for Los Angeles Times states that the Afghanistan’s Taliban has committed crimes against women and girls. For six years the Feminist Majority Foundation has condemned Taliban’s crimes against women and the have been saying that in a country where so many people have no rights will create international instability. The organization opposes to widespread air strikes but also negotiations with the Taliban. They believe that human rights should be a priority in the moths to come. In 1996 the foundation started a campaign to stop gender apartheid and included Afghan women who under the ruling of Taliban they can’t no longer work, attend to school, leave their homes or receive medical treatment.

David Gibbs, an associate professor of political science at the University of Arizona and an expert on Afghanistan said that the international community should not accept groups that abuse women and girls.

I believe that women should have equal rights as men anywhere in the world and reading about Taliban’s actions against women irritates me. Coming from the West it seems unbelievable that women can’t work or go to schools. My mother studied a career

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"People just thought, 'Oh, there they go about the women again,' " she said. and worked in the 70’s and nobody opposed to it. [that] seems to contradict their desire to protect civilian lives.

Begun in 1996, the foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid has been the nation's loudest voice in protesting the treatment of Afghan women who, under the ruling Taliban, have been stripped of basic human rights. Now, as the eyes of the world are focused on that country, leaders of the Feminist Majority Foundation are urging the U.

Although experts on the Middle East say Smeal may be overstating her case, most agree that human rights should be a priority in the weeks and months to come. government to remember the plight of those they call "the first victims. If by saying we should have done something sooner, they mean military action . The latter concern was assuaged Wednesday when the White House refused such talks.

The problem extends into Pakistan, where millions of Afghan women and children have taken refuge. Smeal has not been to Afghanistan, but the foundation sent a research team to Pakistan in 1999 to interview Afghan refugees.

"Certainly they are to be commended for reiterating the need to protect civilians," said Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan research and policy center.

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