Women in Afghanistan Sharia Law: o Women arent allowed to work in any field except the medical one.

. Doesnt allow the employment of women in government departments or international agencies. Women should not go outside their residences with the exception of those working in the medical sector. There have been reported cases of the beating female doctors and female medical staff at the hospitals where they worked. o Restrictions on what women can wear and whom they can see. It forbids women from wearing jewelry and make-up and from making noise with their shoes when they walk. Stylish dress and decoration of women is forbidden. o A Muslim or Islamic Law, both civil and criminal justice as well as regulating individual conduct both personal and moral. Duhaime.org: Learn Law Women Rights: o Never a priority -- neither for the Karzai government nor, in any serious way, for the international community. Such rights are seen in Afghanistan as a zero-sum game: More rights for me means fewer rights for you. Add to that the fact that merely discussing women's rights makes many Afghan men uncomfortable. There's an insistent scaremongering of conservatives -- social, political, religious -- and of those clutching to power in a quickly devolving landscape. They push the idea that a slightly more equitable society would mean watching Afghan women running free from custom and convention. Women would cease to serve the family and would demand to have public, independent lives. Persecuted: o Women in Afghanistan are still suffering persecution because of their gender.

o The Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan today follow the Sharia law, which neglect women the freedom that men have. o This law, in Afghanistan, doesnt allow women to work in any field except the medical sector. o The Sharia law places restrictions on what women can wear and whom they can see. o Although the Sharia law includes rules that are to be followed by each individual in the society, it doesnt include any human rights for women, only men, o This is why the society in this entire country approaches a woman more as a property than as a human being. Persecuted: o Although most men in Afghanistan believe in the approach that the Shania law has towards women, the ones who are most in favor of it are the Taliban. o The Taliban are an Islamist military and terrorist group that came into power in 1996 and started ruling large parts of the country. o They have become known worldwide for their cruel mistreatment of women. o Although, in 2001 they were overthrown, they managed to reappear in 2004, and began taking control of smaller parts of the country. However, they do have influential power over certain regions that also obey the Shania law