The Living Conditions of Afghan women under the Taliban Force

In addition to the Taliban’s seizure of fundamental rights of Afghan women, the Taliban shows their ruthless restrictions by banning women’s education. The Taliban uses violence to prevent female students attending school. Getting proper education is one of the most important things in one’s life, but the Taliban takes away this opportunities from Afghan women. The Taliban’s strong opposition of education for girls is also shown in recent event that the Taliban blew up four schools in Pakistan trying to show their opposition against female education. Many young women in Pakistan have been prevented from going to school by Taliban forces (Khan). Aside from getting education, Women are also treated unequally as in job opportunities compared to men. Because of unequal job opportunities, female teachers and doctors are rare in Afghanistan. The major leading cause of death of Afghan women is impossibility of getting proper first-aid when they needed because of lack of female doctors in society (Hosseini). Moreover, High mortality and diseases of women has brought into focus the lack of education. Restrictions of education for women leads to health awareness that female students who did not get proper education on nutrition and health issues of women’s lives tend to have high mortality and life threatening diseases (Emadi). Improper education and unequal job opportunities which cause the lack of female doctors and teachers in Afghan society leads to high mortality and diseases of Afghan women.

The Afghan government does little to deal with the situations of violence against women. Afghan women’s living condition gets worse not only because of the Taliban, but also the Afghan Government who, in reality, promotes the growing strength of the Taliban by just watching and doing nothing on violent rule of the Taliban over its country. Current Afghan Government fears Taliban forces and is too weak to fight against them. “The perception of the threat from the Taliban continues to outstrip the reality……This struggle is more down to the credibility of the Afghan Government rather than the threat of the Taliban.” (Coghlan). Because of its weakness and fears towards the Taliban force, The Afghan Government does not make any punishment or law to prevent violence against women. There is an incident that happened which clearly shows the weakness in judicial system of Afghan Government when a young women was shot while hurrying her seriously ill baby to a doctor. She kept walking despite of the call from teenage Taliban and she got shot. Later when her family complained about it, they were informed that it was that women’s fault that she had no right being out in public in the first place (Goodwin). The Afghan Government is corrupted and only cares about wealth and reputation that they don’t see any value to prevent violence against women. The organization that protects Afghan women’s rights insists that “because of corrupt political and social system, our people are getting poorer and poorer every day. In such circumstances, talking about privatization of education or the establishment of private institutions will, at the end of the day, only fill foreigners’ pockets and expand colonial culture.” (RAWA). The weakness and corruption of the Afghan Government with its insensibility of the situation of violence against women provides the opportunities to the Taliban force to take over the lives of women in Afghanistan.

The unfavorable living conditions of Afghanistan women is caused by the growing strength of the Taliban who takes away their basic human rights with opportunities to get proper education and the Afghan Government who fears the power of the Taliban and not making any law or punishment preventing Afghan women’s rights. The Taliban deprives almost every fundamental right of women which makes women struggle to survive. Also, their harsh restrictions especially banning women’s education leads to high mortality and diseases of women. Despite of all these violence against women, in reality, the Afghan Government is corrupted and insensible that they do not do much to improve or deal with the situation. Some people argues that it is just a problem of Afghanistan and not a problem that whole world needs to worry about, but it is important for people around the world to aware of this situation of violence against women in Afghanistan. Avoiding it and Trying not to face it because it’s a gender issue of a country with minor popularity is an old thinking. Poor living conditions of Afghan women can be improved not only to remove the Taliban force which now controls many aspects of Afghan people’s lives, but also to eliminate factors that causes the growing strength of the Taliban in Afghan society.