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Brief History
• The Taliban, upon seizing power, started a system of gender discrimination.
• Effectively thrusting the women of Afghanistan into a state of virtual house arrest.
• The Taliban took control in 1996.
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Taliban Women
• Prohibited women from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative.
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Depression Rate Of Taliban Women
• The Following chart is a graph showing the depression rate of Taliban women.
• 97% of Taliban women are depressed, while 3% are not.
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The Veiling of Taliban Women
• Ordered the publicly visible windows of women's houses painted black.
• They also forced women to wear the burqa (or chadari) - which completely shrouds the body, leaving only a small mesh-covered opening through which to see.
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A Taliban Woman’s Duties
• The Taliban Women are to take care of the childern, cook and clean. Also obey the male’s orders.
• Banished women from the work force.
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School/University For Women
• Closed schools to girls in cities and expelled women from universities
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The Consequences• Many women, now
forcibly housebound, have attempted suicide by swallowing household cleaner, rather than continuing to Live under these conditions.
• Women have died of treatable ailments because male doctors were not allowed to treat them.
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• Prohibited women and girls from being examined by male physicians while at the same time, prohibited most female doctors and nurses from working.
• Currently there are a few, selected female doctors allowed to operate in segregated wards.
Health Care For Taliban Women
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Taliban Rules
• Women are not to:• Speak or laugh loudly• Ride bicycles or
motorcycles• Wear shoes that click• Wear makeup• Leaving home without
a close male relative• Speaking to a males
who are not close male relatives
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Rules Of The Taliban
The Following are prohibited:• Eating Pork, pig oil and
lobster Movies and Photographs • VCR’s, TV’s & Satelite
Dishes Computers & The Internet• Kite flying and chess playing Pool tables and firecrackers • Pet Pigeons & sewing
catalogs Clapping at sporting events• Singing and dancing “anything that propagates
sex and is full of music”
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After the Taliban
On November 12th, 2001, the Taliban rule came to a end. The Northern Alliance
took control of Afghanistan.
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Lifting the Veil
An Afghan woman and her daughter visit Kabul zoo. Under the Taliban they were not allowed to visit the zoo or show their faces.
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Watching Football
• Afghans in their house in Heart watch the World Cup qualifying football match between Iran and Ireland on satellite TV on November 15.
• Television was banned under the Taliban.
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Ferrying Aid• A Russian border guard
watches as an Afghan ferry boat crosses the Pyandzh river on the Tajik-Afghan border near Paccar on November 15.
• The ferry takes international humanitarian aid and Russian military equipment and ammunition to northern Afghanistan
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Visiting The Zoo
• Afghan women and children leave Zabul zoo, which women were not allowed to visit under the Taliban regime.
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Riding A Bicycle
• An Afghan man rides his bicycle past a burned-out car in Kabul. The vehicle was destroyed during clashes on November 12 between the Northern Alliance and the Taliban.
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Greatest hits
• Residents of Kabul gather around Noor Mohammed, today, to listen to a tape of music which had been banned by the Taliban.
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