taliban's women
The article" AFTER THE ATTACK; Extremists Put Own Twist on Faith" written by Teresa Watanabe for Los Angeles Times states that the Afghanistan's Taliban has committed crimes against women and girls. For six years the Feminist Majority Foundation has condemned Taliban's crimes against women and the have been saying that in a country where so many people have no rights will create international instability. The organization opposes to widespread air strikes but also negotiations with the Taliban. They believe that human rights should be a priority in the moths to come. In 1996 the foundation started a campaign to stop gender apartheid and included Afghan women who under the ruling of Taliban they can't no longer work, attend to school, leave their homes or receive medical treatment. David Gibbs, an associate professor of political science at the University of Arizona and an expert on Afghanistan said that the international community should not accept groups that abuse women and girls. I believe that women should have equal rights as men anywhere in the world and reading about Taliban's actions against women irritates me. Coming from the West it seems unbelievable that women can't work or go to schools. My mother studied a career
While American experts on the region do not argue that the Taliban's treatment of women is inhumane, they find some of what the foundation is saying problematic. Begun in 1996, the foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid has been the nation's loudest voice in protesting the treatment of Afghan women who, under the ruling Taliban, have been stripped of basic human rights. They are no longer allowed to work, to attend school, to leave their homes or to receive medical treatment. David Gibbs, an associate professor of political science at the University of Arizona and an expert on Afghanistan, agreed with much of what Smeal said. But he said the moujahedeen, the Islamic soldiers the U.S. supported during the war with the former Soviet Union, also had a terrible record on the treatment of women. "We have been saying for years that a country where so many people have no rights will create international instability," Smeal said. Smeal has not been to Afghanistan, but the foundation sent a research team to Pakistan in 1999 to interview Afghan refugees. The foundation has also worked closely with Afghan women who have fled to the United States. The foundation opposes not only widespread airstrikes, but also negotiations with the Taliban, which could lend the group legitimacy. The latter concern was assuaged Wednesday when the White House refused such talks. In future policymaking, Gibbs said, groups that mistreat women and girls should be
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