Womens Rights in Afghanistan

The situation is getting so bad that one person in an editorial of the times compared the treatment of women there to the treatment of Jews in pre-Holocaust Poland (Barbara Mikkelson). For most of the past 25 years, Afghan women have suffered outrage upon outrage as political instability, armed conflict and violence washed over their rugged country. The growing war in Afghanistan has further jeopardized the already precarious lives of Afghan women.

The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. The current air strikes have worsened conditions, destroying roads and services already devastated by famine, earthquakes and three years of drought. "We need these restrictions until people learn to obey the Taliban.

Afghan women, who had been the majority of the country's workforce and of its population, were barred from employment outside the home and prohibited from attending secondary school, driving vehicles or appearing in public without male escorts and the all-covering burqa. Millions of Afghan women, children and elderly have fled their homes. Women were placed under house arrest, deprived of health care and education, and made totally dependent upon male relatives, suffering beatings, sexual assault or even execution if they violated the bans(Afghanistan’s Women Today). "Our current restrictions of women are necessary in order to bring the Afghan people under control," he said.