US report: Taliban will likely curtail Afghan women's rights
Source: AP
By NOMAAN MERCHANT 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. intelligence agencies are warning that any gains in womens rights in Afghanistan made in the last two decades will be at risk after U.S. troops withdraw later this year.
An unclassified report released Tuesday by the Director of National Intelligence says the Taliban remain broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to womens rights and would roll back much of the past two decades progress if the group regained national power.
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During the Talibans rule in the 1990s, women were largely confined to their homes, and girls had no access to education. Despite protestations from the U.S. and Europe, the Taliban brutally enforced its extreme version of Islamic Sharia law with little consequence. It was only after the U.S.-led invasion toppled the group that had hosted Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network that democratic governance and respect for human rights in Afghanistan became a Western priority.
Two-thirds of Afghanistans population is 25 years old or younger, with no memory of Taliban rule. While Afghanistan remains one of the worlds worst countries for women, particularly in rural areas where little has changed in generations, Afghan women now serve in Parliament, go to school and run businesses.
But there are persistent fears that, as the U.S. has negotiated with the Taliban on an exit from Afghanistan, women will be stripped of rights or once again be forced to wear the burqa, the all-encompassing veils that became a symbol of Taliban rule................................
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Women--and the young in Afgan have had a taste of democracy. They will fight back. But it will be horrible for both sides.
After 20 years, I am not saying we should stay--yet I feel so bad for the women -and their families.
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A U.S. flag is lowered as American and Afghan soldiers attend a handover ceremony from the U.S. Army to the Afghan National Army, at Camp Anthonic, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (Afghan Ministry of Defense Press Office via AP)
JohnSJ
(92,060 posts)maxsolomon
(33,232 posts)3 decades ago.
I hope Pakistan comes to regret what they've wrought.
NoRethugFriends
(2,276 posts)I partially sponsor three girls at a great orphanage in Kabul.
Great music program and positive stuff for girls.
Many go to university.
I shudder to think what will happen there.
Justice matters.
(6,915 posts)Rebl2
(13,447 posts)what will happen to the women once we leave. There has been much progress for them and if we pull out, I dread what will happen. Sorry but its a mistake. You cant tell me otherwise.
TomDaisy
(1,860 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,315 posts)I'm sure the current Afghan leaders will scoot to Europe, where their bank accounts are doing well.
VarryOn
(2,343 posts)Is a ....nevermind
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)I'll still feel sorry for the goats, though.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Polybius
(15,331 posts)Saudi Arabia has a horrible record too, yet we don't go to war with them.
betsuni
(25,369 posts)was totally going to be nice from now on, they promise.
McKim
(2,412 posts)The forces behind this war are not really concerned about women. This is just a commonly used argument to justify our military bases in the Middle East. Afghanistan has billions of dollars worth of mineral wealth and that is what matters to the military industrial complex.
OnlinePoker
(5,716 posts)Women in Afghanistan were not always under house arrest and forbidden by law to leave their homes unchaperoned by a male relative. Once upon a time in pre-Taliban days Afghan women had access to professional careers, university-level education, shops selling non-traditional clothing, public transportation, and public spaces, all of which they happily navigated freely and without supervision.
(with photos)
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/it_didnt_always_suck_to_be_a_woman_in_afghanistan
JI7
(89,239 posts)In most of the country and for most women they were still fully covered and without rights.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)where people are more liberal in the cities and more RWers and fundies out in the country
JI7
(89,239 posts)and still be open about your beliefs. yeah, there will be hostile people in certain areas but some MAGA hat wearing fool can go into cities and someone with shirts promoting liberal causes can go to right wing areas .
In Afghanistan a woman without full covering would not have been able to go into many parts of the country .
The pictures people keep using to show Afghanistan was more open are usually the same ones and most of those people were family of high officials and other well to do types .
JI7
(89,239 posts)It makes it impossible to do much to help the people there .
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pfitz59
(10,296 posts)to be raped repeatedly until pregnant. and they kept pregnant until they die or lose appeal. then on to the next 9 year-old girl..
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)Unless they marry a doctor or their father is a doctor, forget about any medical care. Education...nope. Sunlight on their skin? Again, no. They are treated worse then farm animals. Bought, sold, bred.... but at least a horse can feel the sun on it's skin.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)the whole culture needs to change - but won't.
Martin68
(22,755 posts)cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)Just leave the men to themselves and their goats.