be a pawn for their own good for their protection either through all the above. if women don't wear their headscarves they will be harassed raped injured and humiliated. there is no longer the gun is the law we have the woman in parliament we have the woman in media we have the woman in the universities we have the woman in the government we have ministers and even magine that is the suspect that they have. but their wife they exchange a doctor but that doc just put 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 go out a man in big sleep in really they do this is so every two women.

they are independent economy independent they have some somebody this is maybe one or two press no more most of them 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 some 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 the support. of the taliban. soldiers. across much of the country and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing in. our bush administration latched on 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 the. president. bush.

said military. and women are no longer imprisoned in their homes they can listen to music and teach their daughters without fear of punishment the fight against terrorism. for the rights and dignity of women the media talking to the whole country we are going to liberate the women of afghanistan. can liberate their people. you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun. and then unfortunately now did the recent permanent civil war and we were once again imprisoned by the fear. and things are going backwards someone. was mad at me 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 it was arranged marriages i used to say that accidentally has that. is what it's supposed to be and he really 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 knife because she has a right to you and i democrats young generation that want to play her all and today this command us off a smile haunt. wanted criminal means and. and his puppet of you know as well and then they beat to a knife to stop. the women in the thread due to the shaky situation within the country many of them a journalist it's sad and many of them have been assassinated and therefore it has

spread far too high a price to act the us woman who has been. in kandahar my john and kandahar. and not done jim and hid out. much twenty five years still journalist and couple is on a mission there are some end to violence something that didn't exist before unfortunately we were in a beating the daily and the public mosque a number of. them together. that decided me. because. i went to that province and create a show and so now woman. that i know way and have a protection because of their. she could provide. a woman so become a controller or a woman and i would probably say if you follow. what you have been a good place to ask if you code that means that. you will give in to

a good job but the god. and right now one of the things we can do is pressure. our government 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 construction.

only affected social change. can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women and now you have working for me and i try to for. college i mean leadership and afghanistan to teach woman to be the leaders of the future. we should be going in and provide economic opportunities educational opportunities but it's alternately for the afghan people to determine how their social progress is going to proceed. rights aren't given they have

to be taken. you have asked me if men give women the right to drive a car to join the army 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 but the these are not rights that men give us but rights that we have to take. the horses so we need to work with but the man to teach them that that is their right. because men are the decision making. men are the power. man who can make change make connections so you don't have to work with me so we don't have. this is if you go what we're going to do good on for me because you just know what i mean if you

reason for. i'm going to spawn is not like another. country to have to score takes it encourage a woman. about court rights and tell her that you have that's your right to have access to education and go to disco and it's going to look at it just in front of her door the husband doesn't allow to. have been allowed to she could enjoy freedom it gives from its. them to don't go to school or university it's kind woman because could produce could. 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 when the local people go out the local people say you are not here as afghans or as pakistanis are in the nations you are 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.

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there's. she's on the want to post 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. you have to be thinking to this don't do. those seven years and descended from people i think. these are the dog does that do any good if it did and all men. in the biz and talk about the family for names in the midst of bullshit to me did shows its value

is not each ivy provolone so 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 and personality when i met her i was immediately taken by her character her work her personality.

so we decided to get married and that was also when was the first fell head out. but. when but i can not looking at that time. in two thousand and two when. i decided. i must make them. it was feel so it was difficult for her because nor did it nor you know family to. accept who had a bottle or had a wife or activist to my fellow because they don't like. to be. in movie and seen the woman one year i said for act it's.

the office house but now. i have the rights to produce walk bike films strike the ball pool or go to prison i'm a bit. want to take the exhibition that you see here has fifty exhibits drawn by seven different artists six of these artists are men and one is a woman. and i've been drawing carey catchier sport ten years i'm not an artist i have a degree in political sciences but i draw in relation to political topics these particular drawings refer to the current political situations. if nothing. more than almost any of them even in

afghanistan that we didn't want to hear. it's true or it's. been that is bigger than it which afghanistan has never had a caricature 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 to. eight years right now we have a lot of women and favorite students which is noticed that we have a family of actor and activist and for me years 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 for. that matter if you ask me if i'm happy to be born a woman than 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.

my job is to follow criminals in the province and in fifteen districts of. the departments that i manage has one hundred employees. of these one hundred employees down there are 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 be capable of following through with their responsibilities and taking orders from. so it's not easy to feel. understand the courage of these women who put themselves out there and do their best every day. i want to be paid as i want to work hard and how i. yeah i want to head it but. my. i like it.

i live in the given my role and the responsibility that i have in my jump my life is in danger because i have to deal with criminals day off to date. and for anti government groups it is unacceptable that a woman has such a responsible position. for this reason i'm in danger and i have to move about always with an ass court and an armored car. unfortunately things have not changed very much for afghan women when you think of all the blood that has been spilled from two thousand i don't want to now be able a bit and take you over walk but we achieved. in security. but to be achieved. poverty.

one of the ways you can judge how the status of women is looking at the issue of maternal mortality how many women die in childbirth. one at a five afghan women died in childbirth american 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 off for the woman in nineteen. they're young girls nine hundred sixty so one when they go. to school. and they see how they are. but even with the car they waste and going to school going to turn it on they condition the women has been one of the reasons for military intervention in the country which is 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. 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. who send some of their women into government. and of 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 working when i was nine years old at fifty years my work has been to weave carpets oh no hope i have lived too long for six years i have three children two girls and one boy 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 t.v. station money to argue with. t.v. station and argue official and also a newspaper. or magazine. month because. we have money and also programmes about woman growth of oklahoma ok and that's why women and people know about their rights now that we are in we had more been than nine hundred which came on the commission in really just put it this all the way you like woman there are problems that women face not only in hair out but in all of afghanistan. and the 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 is four years old maybe three and a half years old babies five year old babies twelve years old girls fourteen year old girl take it right. normally if. inge of the wife's the husband don't accompany them to hospitals their companies by the member of their families you know. beating your wife beating your family beating your children isn't considered a crime. the police reports mainly regard physical violence. however i believe the majority of women i can say ninety nine percent suffer 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 her husband he has never taken care of or that he has 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 more. woman in afghanistan with go. get my. husband. this. has been right.

sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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