By: Sara Caliskan
Afghanistan
Egypt
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Women in Afghanistan wear a burqa head to toe
Women must be accompanied by a man
Beaten due to showing ankles or having noisy shoes
They are not allowed to speak in public
Women’s homes windows have to be painted over
Women have male children beg for the family
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Women eat grass, suffer from skin
disease and die from starvation
Taliban break own rules
Taliban sends own daughters to
schools in other countries
Taliban took control of most of
Afghanistan
But the Taliban forbids drug use
Taliban beating
woman
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Taliban rule-All women were stripped of all human
rights
Women are beaten, flogged and killed
Taliban banished women from work forces and closed
schools
Taliban are composed of young men and boys who
have hardly lived in Afghan
Taliban members are raised in refugee camps and
trained in ultraconservative schools
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Women are considered property
of males
Women can be exchanged,
bought and sold
Honor killings are used for a wide
range of offenses
Most marriages are arranged by
fathers
People of rape are
weak/vulnerable
Violence against women is being
fought as human rights
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Three women every day are victims of honor killings
But women now have the right to inheritance, vote,
work and the right to chose own male for marriage
Since Taliban has fell women don’t have to wear the
burqa anymore and some have good positions in the
government
Still women are forced into marriages and little girls
are poisoned to death for wanting to go to school
30% of girls in Afghanistan have an education
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44=Average life expectancy for women in Afghanistan
70-80% of Afghan women are forced into marriages
An afghan women dies every 30 minutes during
childbirth
8:00 pm is the curfew
All men must grow beards
Taliban considers itself a religious army
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Health=non-existent for women
If widows don’t have male children, they sit in dark
houses and pray
Afghanistan produces the drug opium
The Taliban collects 20% tax from opium farmers
Opium plants
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Women are the vessels of the family
Reports of honor killings in many countries
Females in the family support the attacks
Nothing that permits honor killing
Countries who don’t see domestic violence, raise their
penal codes up to standards
Penal Codes Definition: A
document which compiles
all, or a significant amount
of, a particular
jurisdiction's criminal law.
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Women can buy, sell and inherit land
They can begin legal proceedings on own rights, act as
witnesses, plaintiffs or defendants
Can draft civil contracts-marriage, divorce and
purchasing property
Entitled to 1/3 of the property after husbands death
Peasant women worked as servants for the wealthy
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It’s possible to raise up as high as a priestess
Female rights included divorce and remarriage
Pregnancy was very important
Women known for special care to appearance and
beauty
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Women had to ignore men who weren’t in family
Had to wear veil in public
After marriage men make all decisions
Not giving birth to a son was almost bad
Need at least 2 sons
A bad reputation for a women was bad for her whole
family
A veil.
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Women have to be on best behavior
Women have chores at home and need to take care of
children
Gender separation at schools and work
Some schools take girls out of school when they reach
puberty
A school
in Egypt.
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Women can only have 1 husband at a time, men can
have up to 4
Wife can get custody of sons under 10 and daughters
under 12
Women lose their right to divorce if her husband
marries a 2nd wife
Husband can dispose of property without wife’s
permission
Wife “owns property” husband uses it
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