Afghan Women’s Rights Face Uncertain Future
July 30,2013
Afghan women are wondering what will happen to them when U.S.-led NATO combat forces leave the country at the end of 2014. The international community insists that rights achieved since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 should be protected. Some women from around Afghanistan say their rights are a low priority among the country’s power brokers.
This group of female provincial council leaders is upset with the policies of the central government and they are not afraid to show it. Among them is Okmina who has dressed like a man since the Soviet invasion because she said it was safer than appearing in public as a woman.
“The problem is that no one cares about the protection of women, commanders don’t, lawmakers don’t, no one is focusing on women's issues. They are behaving very badly towards women," said Okmina.
Under the Taliban, women in Afghanistan were forced to wear face-covering burqas. They were forbidden from going to school.
Now, women council leaders and lawmakers fight for their rights in this still male-dominated society.
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Women say the government failed them by not implementing an Elimination of Violence Against Women law that banned child and forced marriages, among other crimes.
Human Rights Watch said there are ominous signs that women face a darker future. Already, there has been a sharp increase of women and girls jailed for so called moral crimes, such as fleeing home or having sex outside marriage.
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