AFGHAN WOMEN BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER

TALIBAN

Sudaba Parnian Ahmadi

July 31st ,2014

What does come to your minds when you hear the words, Afghan Women?

Changing political landscape of Afghanistan

in the last fifty years exploited the women's

rights.

Sometimes being improved but often being

abused.

• 20th century - a steady progress in women’s

rights

• Afghan women gain the right to vote in

1919 i.e. one year after UK women and one

year before US women

Taliban Regime (1994- 2001)

INVESIBLE WOMEN

• Banned from going to school or studying

• Banned from working

• Banned from leaving the house without a male chaperone

• Banned from showing their skin in public

• Banned from accessing healthcare delivered by men

Banned from being involved in politics or speaking

publicly

International intervention in 2001

• Following the attack in 2001

• Women back to school and back to work

• New constitution

Political Participation

Back to work

Schools

Military

• Now, women are still routinely discriminated, abused and

persecuted. There is lots to be done before the equality

becomes an everyday reality for women in Afghanistan.

Story of Gender in Kabul Barbara Walters

Thank you