Afghanistan’s Violations of Human Rights As Afghanistan is a member of the UN, it has given itself the responsibility to attempt to adhere the UDHR. Based on various reputable humanitarian sources, Afghanistan persistently commits flagrant violations of the UDHR even after Taliban rule was toppled in 2001. Through them, Afghanistan has evidently failed in fulfilling this responsibility. A particularly pressing violation of human rights in Afghanistan is the treatment of women, homosexuals, apostates by its interpretation of Islamic Law. This report will focus on the severity of abuse as well as the justifications behind the abuse. Forced marriage is one of the human rights violations that are active and thriving in Afghanistan. It is commonplace for a young Afghani woman to be married off to an older and wealthier Afghani man. In turn, the husband must pay the bride’s family. According to Human Rights Watch as many as 70-80% of Afghanistan’s women are forced into their marriages. Forced Marriage violates Section 2, Article 16 of the UDHR, which states “Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses”. As the women and husband enter forced marriage with reluctance, this also sows the roots for domestic abuse that is rampant Afghanistan. Most Women are likely to face further violence and struggle through the marriage, especially in rural communities which hold conservative Islam values more strictly than in Afghanistan’s cities, due to a higher Taliban presence and a lower government presence in rural areas. The situation is rampant throughout Afghanistan nonetheless. Women are treated as property and thus her husband and mother-in-law make the major decisions for her such as whether o... ... middle of paper ... ...ic violence against women is encouraged under the condition that she is suspected of being disloyal. Also, the inequality between women and men is a result of Afghanistan being a Patriarchal society where males dominate. Afghanistan’s human rights violations may get worse in the future. In 2014, NATO will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan. This leaves the government to have no aid in the conflict against the Taliban. Also, negotiations with them may bring back stoning and many other laws that would violate the UDHR. If we are to solve Afghanistan’s human rights issues, we must provide economic aid to it as well as pressure it to modernize its technologies and ideologies in the process. We must also negotiate peace with Afghanistan as well. In Afghanistan, religion is a very important matter and thus we will have to respect that while making a compromise.
One statement from the UDHR that was disregarded is the right to an equal education. An example from not too long ago is the story of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot for trying to get an education because she is a girl. Article 26 of the UDHR states: “Everyone has the right to an education.” The right that was violated is article 26, the right to an education and article 18, the right to freedom of thought which was violated after “Two Taliban assassins boarded and fired point-blank shots at her [Malala]” She was on a bus for school and shot just for having an education. This connects to the UDHR because it says that education should be free for at least the basics of learning and the Taliban is trying to scare girls away from learning.
Women in Afghanistan don’t have as much freedom or no rights compared to the men in their country. Men are seen as strong ,controlling and Powerful. They often say that women are treated worse than the animals. Women are not treated really well in Afghanistan Men and Women should be treated the same.Hopefully one day we will see the rights and responsibilities change and women are valued as much as men
The society of the Taliban is almost a polar opposite of that in the United States. The group looks at women as having little to no rights and believes that their holy book, the Quran, gives reasoning to the roles of women as virtually sexual objects in their society. Their political leaders were not elected into their positions, but took them by force. It operates fifteen courts of law in Southern Afghanistan in the...
One of the main controversies in this book is the plight of women and men’s struggles. Although both experienced different kinds of inequalities, women were the target of the Taliban. In 1978, women in Kabul were demanding their rights during the Afghan Women’s Year. The president who was in charge then was president Daoud, and he decreed, “The Afghan woman has the same right as the Afghan man to exercise personal freedom, choose a career, and fins a partner in marriage” (53). This decree was absolutely invalid when the Taliban expelled a humanitarian organization that was run by women, and because of that, the Taliban took over Kabul. Women were not allowed to work outside of home. Because of that, Latifa mentions that women in Kabul usually just bake bread, do embroidery,
The issue of human rights has arisen only in the post-cold war whereby it was addressed by an international institution that is the United Nation. In the United Nation’s preamble stated that human rights are given to all humans and that there is equality for everyone. There will not be any sovereign states to diminish its people from taking these rights. The globalization of capitalism after the Cold War makes the issue of human rights seems admirable as there were sufferings in other parts of the world. This is because it is perceived that the western states are the champion of democracy which therefore provides a perfect body to carry out human rights activities. Such human sufferings occur in a sovereign state humanitarian intervention led by the international institution will be carried out to end the menace.
In Afghanistan specially in rural areas of country men are the dominant force in a family and all the time women faced different types of abuses either by their own family member or their husband and his family. Women violation is the use of force over woman either by their family members or an outsider, or its the concept through which men use their power in order to force an implement their own desires over a woman's will.
The three very basic rights in America that are not given to Afghan women are marriage, education and speech. Marriage in America is a choice, however in Afghanistan it is more of a business deal for the family. “80 percent of marriages in poor rural areas are either forced or arranged” (Life as an Afghan Woman). The father’s voice in a family overshadows the female leaving her with no say in a life long marriage. If a woman refuses to marry the man she is paired up with she will be punished for her rebellious actions. On the same hand, going to school is not as easy as it is here in America. All women in America are given the privilege by law to attend school free of charge, while it is much more difficult for an Afghan woman to receive an education. “ Only 40% of Afghan girls attend elementary school, and only one in 20 girls attend school beyond the sixth grade” (Life as an Afghan woman). Loads of families aren’t provided with option to attend school while others do not allow their women to receive an education because they are afraid their daughter will be punished for anything she does and could be killed on the way to school. Not only can women not get married and go to school without worries, but also they are not allowed to speak out for themselves in public. In Afghanistan people are allowed to practice their beliefs of any kind but any acts of
The Taliban are still in power in many parts of the country, denying people the rights they deserve, and committing crimes against humanity. Women’s rights are nowhere near where they should be, they are treated like property, because that is how the culture sees women, there is violent acts committed on girls when they try to stand up for themselves, and people don't speak up against this ugly truth, nearly as much as they should as fellow human beings.
Islam has influenced many cultures around the world. For centuries, Islam has had an immense influence on the Afghan culture. According to this religion, women have no rights. The men took advantage of this system by translating only what they wanted from the Koran; to enslave the women in our culture for their own desires. From the beginning, the women on no account had any civil rights or have power over their own lives, and most were uneducated and had accepted what their teachers taught in schools and mosques. My family moved to the US when the Russians invaded Afghanistan. I thank god to be one of the lucky women who did not have to live in Afghanistan and for giving me a better place to live in America. Unfortunately, this was not the case for the majority of the Afghan women. Under the cruel Taliban government the women were banned to work, and were not allowed outside their homes without being escorted by a man. The film Osama, inspired by a true story, is about Osama, a young girl who did lived in Kabul while the Taliban regime. Through Osama's story, I had a chance to see what it was like to live in Afghanistan as a woman. This is a story of a girl whose faith was in the hands of many different people: her family, the Taliban soldiers, and the city judge. Osama and I have different lives on different continents; however, we both could have had more rights and better life if we were born men.
Travesties are committed against women every day, in every country, in every city, town and home. In Afghanistan women are not only discriminated against, they are publicly reduced to animals. Women are deprived of basic human rights: they are not allowed to travel outside their homes without being completely covered by the traditional shroud-like burqa; they are not allowed to speak or walk loudly in public; they are not allowed to laugh or speak with other women; they are not allowed to attend school nor work; they are expected to be invisible; they are the ghosts of what were once educated, notable, and successful women. With their ruthless and extreme laws, the Taliban have effectively removed the physical presence of women in Afghanistan. The Taliban have stolen the very souls of these women and have turned them into the “living dead” of Afghanistan. The Taliban’s harsh restrictions and extreme religious laws have tainted the freedoms and basic human rights of the once valued and prominent women of Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan girls are forced into marriage as young as 8 years old. If these girls would run away or cause any trouble to their husbands the girls will get sonned, flogged or mutated. Before the Taliban took over the women were allowed to show skin, they were allowed to work and going to school, the women had rights. Then when the Taliban took control over Afghanistan the women weren't allowed to go to school, study, work, they couldn't show any skin, couldn't leave the house without a male chaperone, or get health care from men, and the women couldn't speak in public or be involved in politics. the women's rights were taken away from them. Women in Afghanistan should have more rights because women are getting attacked, they are forced
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In Afghanistan, the police force continues to torture and rape innocent women for unnecessary reasons. This is similar to The Handmaid's Tale in that Offred, and other handmaids, not only go through the devestation of "The Ceremony", but also can be used and possibly even raped by their Commanders, and there is nothing the handmaid can do about it. If she speaks, she is usually not believed, and then she is sent away because she broke the law. The handmaid would usually die for making such accusations. Women are given little to no rights in Gilead.
In Afghanistan, the process of dating, engagement, and marriage are three very organized circumstances. A lot of planning from the parents of each the bride and groom-to-be goes into the union of the two children. The planning can begin as early as when the child is ten years old, which is when the parents sometimes begin looking for appropriate suitors for their child. When they believe they have found the one, they get approval from both families, and that is when the two are brought together, or “engaged.” The families then plan the wedding, and it is then that the two are legally bounded to each other and are married.
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