Report on the Taliban's War Against Women Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor November 17, 2001 Quotes By and About Women in Afghanistan
The Taliban in Their Own Words "If we are to ask Afghan women, their problems have been solved.” “We have enough problems with the education of men, and in those affairs no one asks us about that.” “If a woman wants to work away from her home and with men, then that is not allowed by our religion and our culture. If we force them to do this they may want to commit suicide.” “We do not have any immediate plans to give jobs to (women) who have been laid off. But they can find themselves jobs enjoying their free lives.” And in Their People's Words “Approximately 80% of women and men agreed that women should be able to move about freely and that the teachings of Islam do not restrict women's human rights.” “'Indignity is our destination,' says Seema, 30, who used to work at a health center and now roams the streets in Kabul begging to support her children.” “When we are together, everyone here is talking about how the Taliban has destroyed our lives. They won't let us go to school because they want us to be illiterate like them.” |
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