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they have two schools they have that i too would do works with but cements and the mystery is one that woman is asian enjoys i'm sure. i'm supposed to say there were many factors equal to and felt they were still there with two alike and even universities because this is freedoms. in new york that no one respects lozier hong not all the nation look. on for their own good for their protection either through the wrote above. i don't remember if women don't wear their headscarf they will be harassed raped injured and humiliated.

told there is no law the gun is the law we have the woman in parliament we have the women in media we have the woman in the universe just we have the woman in the government we have minister of this and you imagine that is that the suspect that they have. put their wife they exchange a daughter but that duck just put out their plan to have a funny duck and play with that right now. nine percent of. females is good to university woman out of working by i go out a man and. really they do this is so every two women they are independent economy independent they have some somebody this is maybe one or two pressing. more most of them somehow when we say that the situation of women

in afghanistan has improved you can only take into consideration places such as harrow to missouri sharif and kabul. in the provinces in the villages the situation hasn't changed in the summer yet women are still victims of violence and rape.

good morning i'm laura bush and i'm delivering this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children. network and the regime supports in afghanistan the taliban. regime is now in retreat across much of the country and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing and women are the bush administration with blatche to the issue of the oppression of women now women were oppressed a long time and you never heard anybody talk about it but when the u.s. wanted to invade all this. president. bush. said military. and women are no longer imprisoned in their home they can listen to music and teach their daughters without fear of punishment the fight against

terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women the media talking to the whole country saying how we are going to liberate the women of afghanistan. can liberate their people you can liberate. and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun. unfortunately now that the recent permanent civil war was that we were once again imprisoned by the fear. and things are going backwards somewhat . when i was fifteen years old now i have six children. are stuff that is twenty four my marriage was like like many at that marriage it wasn't forced marriages but that was it and. i used to say that accidently has that

this. is what it's supposed to be. he believes woman strike by itself. this is a one of us and head out that has been has been stopped the stopped by by by a knife because she has a right you and i democrats the young generation that want to play her all and today this command dust off a smile. wanted criminal minds and the rest of afghanistan and his puppet of you know as well and and then they beat a knife to a stop not poor the women in the thread due to the shaky situation within the country many of them a journalist with and many of them have been assassinated and therefore it has spread far too high a price to act the west woman who has been called a cop car in kandahar my john in kandahar. and nadia and jim and head

out of our song gone much twenty five fearful journalists and couple. there are some end to violence something that didn't exist before unfortunately when the beating the daily and the public mask. a number of digits need to come together and then decided me. because i'm going i went to that province and created the show and so now woman. way and the protection mechanism there. she could provide a huge for a woman so we cannot control over that woman and i would probably say. you know what you have picked the native place and then i ask you if you that mean that. you can do a good job with the god. and

right now one of the things we can do is pressure our governments for afghan women to be at the table with any discussions about reconciliation any discussions around really incorporating the taliban back into the government because we believe. cannot truly prosper without the participation its population and the construction.

only affected social change. can be. the afghans themselves afghan men and women and now you're working for me and i try to open for. college of women leadership and i'm stuck to teach women to be the leaders of the future of afghanistan we should be going in and providing economic opportunities educational opportunities but it's alternately for the afghan people to determine how their social progress is going to proceed. have rights aren't given they have to be taken have got to stomach so you have asked me if men give women the right to drive a car to join the army or to fight with these other rights that must be taken by

a woman who has to drive or get a degree. women can do the same as men because women are capable and dumb but overtook the these are not rights that men give us but rights that we have to take what some have called a halt as big so we need to work with but the main to teach them that that is their right. of a member and their family. because men are the decision making. men are the. man who can make change make a difference so you do not work with men so we don't have boys this is because what woman is too good will like me tonight because you know what i mean us if you reason pauper. afghanistan is not like another. european country to have discotheques encourage

a woman. or about what rights and tell her that you have that's your right to have access to education to go to disco and it's going to look at it jeff in front of her door the husband doesn't allow to buy that i've been allowed to have but the joy from a freedom it gets for me is. then to don't go to school or university it's clear that women on the coast could produce good. it's a little bit like going out into the villages to convince people with regard to birth control what you've really got to do is you've got to get local people local religious leaders and local social workers etc who are going to go out you can have westerners going now and you can have westerners who are have a high profile in that country because they deal with

the local people go out the local people say you're not here as afghans or as pakistanis are in the nations you're here because these american christian groups. you see are trying to impose on us a social policy that we don't believe in in order to make us weaker you know so we'll have smaller families you know so we won't be as strong as we can be.

she's on with abuse but there are many more hospitals where you can get education about sexual health family planning things that you couldn't do in the time of the taliban. in the time of the taliban you couldn't even leave your house. after missing it in. seven years and this family planning. this is a doctor when. warman hospital in the biz and thought

about the family for the names of the mist of war to me to. tell you is not each i.v. program every day. the

films that i produce some mainly about women's rights. should i tell stories about the problems that afghan women face in their lives when i do i make different types of films artistic educative documentaries also some adverts. in reality what i would like to do is work as much as possible for my country for my people because my people have many needs for this reason i also make educated films films that can give them positive messages. as a big. boy because she was famous. you know i had seen her work i knew who she was in person with money and when i met

her i was immediately taken by her character her work her personality. and so we decided to get married as there was also this film was the first fell in head out. but. when but i cannot shooting at that time. in two thousand and two when the taliban in afghanistan i decided. i must make direct this field so it was difficult for me because nor did it nor you know no family. accept to have a doctor or have a wife be activist to my fellow because they don't like. to be. in a movie and scream of women one year i search for acting. the

office house but now. i have the rights to produce what microfilm strike the ball to a door to the prison to talk to another thing and i want to take the exhibition that you see here has fifty exhibits drawn by seven different artists six of these artists a man and one is a woman. again. i'm not sure i've been drawing kerry catchier support ten years i'm not an artist i have a degree in political sciences but i draw in relation to political topics so these particular drawings refer to the current political situation.

it's nothing. more than all of them even in afghanistan that we didn't want here. it's. been mother figure on the net and with afghanistan has never had a character to exit bishan before. it's the first time because obviously it is about works of critical said tire. and unfortunately the ability to accept criticism here in afghanistan most of all in the political field has notably decreased. computer. right now we have a lot of woman and favorite students which is true but noticed that we have a family of actor and activist and for me we have fair male musician. farewell. that's. moving ahead.

my name is maria bashir and i'm the chief prosecutor of the herat province. i've had the position for about four years. and it's the first time in the history of ghana system that irresponsibility like this. has been given to her or that her. if you ask me if i'm happy to be born a woman then i'll say yes even if i have to face many problems even if the situation is difficult and it takes a lot of effort in such a traditional society above all be no woman is being conscious of your own rights

like my job is to follow criminals in the province and in fifteen districts of. the departments. that i manage has one hundred employees. of lease one hundred employees town their women and the rest are all men i'm legally responsible i'm the one that coordinates and checks the work so they have to answer to me to be capable of following through with their responsibilities and taking orders from. so it's not easy to fully understand the courage of these women who put themselves out there and do their best every day. my wife will be paid by as i want to work hard however. people yeah i want to head. at them my. i like it.

well imagine that huma given my role in the responsibility that i have in my job my life is in danger because i have to deal with criminals day off to date. and for em to government groups it is unacceptable that a woman has such a responsible position. for this reason i am in danger and i have to move about always with an ass court and an armored car because. unfortunately things have not changed very much for afghan women when you think of all the blood that has been spilled from two thousand and one to now be able a bit and take you over work but we achieved if. insecurity . but to be achieved. poverty.

one of the ways you can judge how the status of women is looking at the issue. maternal mortality how many women die in childbirth. one out of five afghan women died in childbirth where i think it's one of the highest rates in the entire world it was under the taliban and it continues now. this is the picture of the woman and nineteen young girls nine hundred sixty so one when they go. to school. and they see how they are free but even with the car five they waste a lot and they are going to school and they're going to turn it on if they condition the women has been one of the reasons for military intervention in the country where she's on the market there are many women but the majority are women who have a political role many of them are linked to fundamentalist groups so i'm going to

go home and i'm sure that there is a high number of women in the afghan parliament. twenty eight percent are women but many of these twenty eight percent belong to the norm. so about their women as important delegates or appointed by the warlords or seniority that you send some of their women into government and so. and today's women's point of view. i work in the news editor an office of radio most day and i present a show for women transmitted by the radio station our program talks about different subjects mostly accounts on the condition of women in herat and their activities. are i started thinking when i was nine years old or fifty years my work has been to weave carpets and no hope i have lived alone for six years i have three children

two girls and one boy and this is a particularly difficult period for us but that let's talk about the development of women in society i have complete is a number of cinema to graphic projects. because we have money. money to argue a. t.v. station and argue official and also a newspaper. or magazine. monthly. we have money and also a programme about women growth of oklahoma ok and that's why women and people know about their rights that we are in we had more been than nine hundred which came on the commission in reading this that it is all the way in fragments woman there are problems that women face not only in hair out about in all of afghanistan. other problems are many for example in

families they are victims of violence perpetrated by their fathers husbands and brothers rape cases is historic i'm not going to stop these dumb mistake while it's just four years old maybe two and a half years old babies five year old babies twelve years old girls fourteen year old girl take it right. normally if they injure their wives the husband don't accompany them to hospitals with their companies by the member of their families you know and afghanistan beating your wife beating your family beating your children isn't considered a crime. the police reports mainly regard physical violence. i believe the majority of women i can say ninety nine percent saw first psychological violence but it isn't trip or to. the other day for example i

saw a fifteen year old girl who was the second wife of a fifty five year old man. because here ninety nine point nine percent of all marriages are arranged. cheater she told us that from the day she had my her husband he has never taken care of or that he has only beaten her and that she can't make any decisions at all she was sick and she told us my husband doesn't want me to get better. but i from warming up on the phone with them. every day i go. get my. husband. this. has been growing.

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