good morning i'm laura bush and i'm delivering this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort on the brutality against women and children. network and the regime in afghanistan the taliban. soldier. their regime is now in retreat across much of the country and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing afghan women are the bush administration when 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 this and they cared about the women they cared so much the president. bush. said military in much of and in

a stand 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 is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women the media talking to the whole country saying we are going to liberate the women of afghanistan. you can liberate their people you can liberate their win certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun. unfortunately now that there is a permanent civil war. or once again imprisoned by the fear. and things are going backwards.

my marriage was like like many other marriage it wasn't forced marriages but it was arranged marriages i used to say that accidently has the math is what it's supposed to. be he believes woman strike by itself. this is a german lesson hit out that has been has been stopped the stopped by by by knife because she has a right you and i democrat young generation want to play her all and today these commands us off a smile haunt. wanted criminal minds and the rest of afghanistan and his puppet of you know as well and then they beat a knife to a stop. there the women in the thread due to the shaky situation within the country many of them a journalist etc 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 caught. in kandahar my john and kandahar.

and patted one. in the head ought to give us some 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 mosque a number of digits needa come together. that decided me. because i'm i went to that crowd and i'm crazy. and so now woman. that i know way and have a protection because it's something. she could provide. excuse for a woman so become a controller or a woman and i promise if you follow. you know what you have been a good place to ask if you code that. you will do a good job with a 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 that a 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 leaderships and. each woman to be the leaders of the future. we should be going in and provide economic opportunities educational opportunities but it's all to really for the afghan people to determine how their social progress is going to proceed. rights aren't given they have to be taken good if 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. boy or women can do the same as men. because women are capable but the trick the these are not rights that men give us but rights that we have to take. the horses so we need to work with the man to teach them that that is their right. because men are the decision making. men are the. man who can make change make conductance so you don't have to work with me so we don't have . this is if you go what woman is too good to like on for me tonight because you just know what i mean specific reason for. afghanistan is not like another.

country to have to score to x. if we encourage a woman far more about what rights and tell her that you have that's your right to have access to education to go to school and it's going to look at it just in front of her door the husband doesn't allow to the buy that would have been allowed or she could enjoy freedom it gives for me is to. them to don't go to school or university it's kind of the 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 it and they when

the local people go out the local people say you are not here as afghans or as pakistanis there is 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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but the environment. and the industry isn't telling. the goddamn why. they're here to. make as much money as they can and get. 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 you think you did this. to seven years and this family planning. is ruined. and warm and. in the biz and talk about the family

for the names of the midst of war to me to. tell you there's not a child. 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 will be good. because she was famous. you know i had seen her work i knew who she was and personality for the money and when i met her i was immediately taken by her character her work her personality.

so we decided to get married as i was also then was the first head out. there. when but i can not shooting at that cause. in two thousand and two when the taliban with afghanistan i decided. i must make a direct this feel so it was difficult for her because nor did it nor you know family to. accept to have a doctor or had a wife or be activists to my fellow because they don't like. to be. in movie and seen the woman one year i'll search for peace.

in. the office house but now. i have the rights to produce walk like film straight the ball to the prison i'm about to. 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. i know 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 all of them even in afghanistan that we didn't want to hear. it's true or it's. a man with a sticker on climate which afghanistan has never had a. very good 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 to. eight years right now we have a lot of women and favorite students which is true but noticed that we have a family of actor and activist and for me years we have family musician. farewell sculpture. 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 denniston that's a responsibility like this. has been given to one of the for. 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.

my job is to follow criminals in the province and in fifteen districts of your art 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 responses. i'm the one that scored in the checks to work so they have to answer to me to be capable of following through with their responsibilities and taking orders from. so little it's not easy to 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 however. yeah i want to head. my. i like it.

and 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 em to 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 and want to now be able a bit and a view of our work but we achieved. insecurity. 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 there. thank you 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 nineteen sixty so one when they go. to school. and they see how they are free and free but even with the car they wish they were going to school and they're going to turn it on they condition the women has been one of the reasons for military intervention in the country where she can work 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. 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 you know sort of their women as important delegates or appointed by the warlords or you send some of their women into government you know the person. and today's women's point of view i work in the news editing office of radio much 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 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 to be a station money to us. t.v. station and argue official and also a newspaper or magazine. market. we have money and also programmes about women growth of oklahoma roads ok. why women and people know about their rights that we act in we had more been in nine hundred case which came on the commission in reading this that it is all the way 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 damn mistake while it's four years old maybe two and half years old babies five year old babies while you have small girls fourteen year old girl take it right. normally if. they injure their wife's the husband don't accompany them to hospitals 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. however 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 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 more. honest than with. my. husband. this. has been growing.

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