The following list offers only an abbreviated glimpse of the hellish lives Afghan women are forced to lead under the Taliban, and can not begin to reflect the depth of female deprivations and sufferings. Taliban treat women worse than they treat animals.
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Women Reporters Under Threat in Herat AI: Afghan Women Still Under Attack -- Systematic Failure to Protect Apathy of Afghan women after Taliban...
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www.rawa.org/women.php
www.rawa.org/women.php
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Conditions are so deplorable for women under the Taliban that many are now severely depressed. Without the resources to leave the country, an increasing number are now choosing suicide, once rare there, as a means of escape.
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www.mtholyoke.edu/~mvcarmac/women2.html
www.mtholyoke.edu/~mvcarmac/women2.html
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'Afghan Women under the Taliban' in William Maley (2001) ISBN 0786410906. Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban. London: Hurst and Company,
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban_treatment_of_women
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban_treatment_of_women
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The Plight of the Muslim Women of Afghanistan under the Taliban Conference on the restoration of women's and children's rights in Afghanistan; "By ousting the Taliban, women's rights will be restored and they will have the right to work and vote." - Afghan President, Burhanuddin Rabbani.
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www.islamfortoday.com/afghanistanwomen1.htm
www.islamfortoday.com/afghanistanwomen1.htm
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For centuries now in Afghanistan, women have been denied these rights either by official government decree or by their own husbands, fathers, and brothers. During the rule of the Taliban (1996 - 2001), women were treated worse than in any other time or by any other society.
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www.afghan-web.com/woman/
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Upon seizing power, the Taliban regime instituted a system of gender apartheid effectively thrusting the women of Afghanistan into a state of virtual house arrest. Under Taliban rule women were stripped of all human rights - their work, visibility, opportunity for education, voice, healthcare, and mobility.
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www.feminist.org/afghan/facts.html
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View the world from a female perspective. At the Fox website for the show, the clips showing the casting and the auditions include sassy, confident women which suggest that fat acceptance may figure prominently in the show. One producer, Sally Ann Salsano, has her own generous figure;
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womensissues.about.com/
womensissues.about.com/
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The Taliban, under the direction of Mullah Muhammad Omar, brought about this order through the institution of a very strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law. Public executions and punishments (such as floggings) Most shocking to the West was the Taliban's treatment of women. When the Taliban took Kabul,
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www.infoplease.com/spot/taliban.html
www.infoplease.com/spot/taliban.html
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