Education of Afghanistan women
St.Stephen Middle School
November, 2001

For more information you can go to St.Stephen Middle School webpage
Women in Afghanistan are not allowed to be schooled.

1- Complete ban on women's work outside the home, which also applies to female teachers, engineers and most professionals. Only a few female doctors and nurses are allowed to work in some hospitals in Kabul.
2- Complete ban on women's activity outside the home unless accompanied by a mahram (close male relative such as a father, brother or husband).
3- Ban on women dealing with male shopkeepers.
4- Ban on women being treated by male doctors.
5- Ban on women studying at schools, universities or any other educational institution. (Taliban have converted girls' schools into religious seminaries.)
6- Requirement that women wear a long veil (Burqa), which covers them from head to toe.
7- Whipping, beating and verbal abuse of women not clothed in accordance with Taliban rules, or of women unaccompanied by a mahram.
8- Whipping of women in public for having non-covered ankles.
9- Public stoning of women accused of having sex outside marriage. (A number of lovers are stoned to death under this rule).
10- Ban on the use of cosmetics. (Many women with painted nails have had fingers cut off).
11- Ban on women talking or shaking hands with non-mahram males.
12- Ban on women laughing loudly. (No stranger should hear a woman's voice).
13- Ban on women wearing high heel shoes, which would produce sound while walking. (A man must not hear a woman's footsteps.)
14- Ban on women riding in a taxi without a mahram.
15- Ban on women's presence in radio, television or public gatherings of any kind.
16- Ban on women playing sports or entering a sport center or club.
17- Ban on women riding bicycles or motorcycles, even with their mahrams.
18- Ban on women's wearing brightly colored clothes. In Taliban terms, these are "sexually attracting colors."
19- Ban on women gathering for festive occasions such as the Eids, or for any recreational purpose.
20- Ban on women washing clothes next to rivers or in a public place.
21- Modification of all place names including the word "women." For example, "women's garden" has been renamed "spring garden".
22- Ban on women appearing on the balconies of their apartments or houses.
23- Compulsory painting of all windows, so women can not be seen from outside their homes.
24- Ban on male tailors taking women's measurements or sewing women's clothes.
25- Ban on female public baths.
26- Ban on males and females traveling on the same bus. Public buses have now been designated "males only" (or "females only").
27- Ban on flared (wide) pant-legs, even under a burqa.
28- Ban on the photographing or filming of women.
29- Ban on women's pictures printed in newspapers and books, or hung on the walls of houses and shops.

http://blei.org/yourtrueenemy.html

these are almost all the reasons that women are beaten or killed. Women are treated as if they are inferior and are nothing but little toys.

http://www.wapha.org/facts.html

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I put this here to prove a point and to give an example.

Round 1 Taliban vs. U.S We are Winning, we have them on the run.

There are some general misconceptions that Islam infringes upon basic rights of women or impose unfair restrictions on them. To strengthen this wrong perception, the Western media usually refers to some tribal or ethnic practices in some Muslim countries that have nothing to do with Islam. For example, the laws of Taleban denying women the rights to education and participating in economic activity are widely cited as "Islamic prejudices" against women where as Islam never imposes such restrictions on women

http://www.hezb-e-islami.org/women.html

http://www.geocities.com/travelertrish/Afghanistan_1978.html

This was Afghanistan before the women had their rights taken away.


This project was amazing and I learned alot on Afghanistan.

Women in Afghanistan have to wear hoods so no one can see them.