Volume : 10, Issue : 11, NOV 2024
STATUS OF WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN AFTER TALIBAN CONTROL
DR. SHUCHITA SINGH RATHORE
Abstract
On 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul and took control of the country.
Over the past 36 months, human rights violations against women and girls have mounted steadily. Despite initial promises that women would be allowed to exercise their rights within Sharia law—including the right to work and to study—the Taliban has systematically excluded women and girls from public life.
Taliban rule has had a devastating impact on Afghan women and girls, new research shows, Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Institute at San Jose State University (SJSU) said today. The organizations looked at the conditions for women. The Taliban have imposed rights-violating policies that have created huge barriers to women’s and girls’ health and education, curtailed freedom of movement, expression, and association, and deprived many of earned income. Afghanistan’s rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis exacerbates these abuses,
Richard Bennett, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, said his new report found that the Taliban’s institutionalised system of gender oppression, established and enforced through its violations of women’s and girls’ fundamental rights, was widespread and systematic, and appeared to constitute an attack on the entire civilian population, amounting to crimes against humanity
Keywords
WOMEN RIGHTS VIOLATION, TALIBAN, BANNED, EDICTS.
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