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 the. taliban. soldiers. across much of the

country and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing and. 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. military. and women are no longer imprisoned in their home they can listen to music and teach their daughters without fear of punishment. 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. and you certainly can't do it

through the barrel of a gun. unfortunately now that the recent permanent civil war and we were once again imprisoned by the fear. and things are going backwards somewhat . when i was fourteen years old now i have six children by our 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 this. is what it's supposed to. really he believes woman strike by itself. this is a judge in the 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 democrat young generation that want to play her role and today

this comment dust off a smile hard was stunned wanted criminal means and the rest of afghanistan and his puppet of you know as well and and then they beat with knife to a stop not poor lead 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. in kandahar my john and kandahar. and not done jim and hid out. much twenty five fearful journalists and couple. there are some end to violence something that didn't exist before unfortunate few women have beaten the daily and the public mosque a number of religious needa come together. that decided me. because. i went to that province and created the show and so now woman could go that way and

have a protection because something. she could provide a huge for a woman so become a controller or a woman and i would probably say 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 re incorporating the taliban back into the government because we believe. cannot truly prosper without the participation its.

and construction. only affected social change. can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women and now for me i try to open for. college and leadership and afghanistan to teach women be the leaders of the

future. we should be going in and provide economic opportunities educational opportunities but it's over with really for the afghan people to determine how their social progress is going to proceed. have 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. women can do the same as men. because women are capable john 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 but the man to teach him that that is their right.

because men are the decision making. men are the. man who can make change make conductance so if you do not work with me so we don't have choices this is if you go for woman's do good on for me because you just know what i mean if you reason for. afghanistan is not like another. country to have to school takes it encourage a woman far more about what 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 toward the allowed or she could enjoy freedom it gets for me it's been to. them too don't go to school or university

it's coming up 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 when the local people go out the local people say you are not here as afghans or as pakistanis there is in the knees and 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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it was not the military i guess army of altitude signed a new contract with a unit of the huge contract. it was not the operation to secure and rebuild the devastated country caliber company taxpayers for its contract work in iraq. it was the campaign for making billions of dollars out of her other reasonable. order bills exceed one billion dollars iraq first sale. or profiteers. in russia. which brightened. about sound from funds to

impressions. means for instance on t.v. . 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 admitting to this. and this. is that we went. and warm in. the biz and thought about the funding for the names. missed. to be did.

the films that i produce some mainly about women's rights. 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 as i was also in was the first.

run but i cannot for. thing at that time. in two thousand and two when. i decided. i must make direct this feel so it was difficult for me because nor did it nor you know family to. accept to have a doctor or have a wife or be activists to my fellow because they don't like. to be. in movie and seeing the woman one year i search for peace. in. the office how i now. have the rights to produce walk bike films straight the ball poor tour of the prison to talk to another thing. i want to take the exhibition that you see here has fifty exhibits joined by seven different

artists six of these are just some men 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. it's nothing. more than almost any of them even in afghanistan that we didn't want to hear. it's true or it's. a man with his finger on the net 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 phobic years we have fair male musician we have fear mel. 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. 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 became 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. be paid as i want to work hard and however. yeah i want to head. my. i like it. i live in the 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'm in danger and i have to 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 one to now it be about a bit and take you over water 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 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 of the woman and nineteen young girls nine hundred sixty so one when they go. to school. and they see how they are free and free and but even with the car five they wish they were 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 you don't know if 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 so about their women as important delegates or appointed by the warlords or seniority that 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 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 to 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. creation money to argue it. t.v.

station and regular station and also a newspaper. or magazine. monthly. we have money structures and also programmes about woman growth of oklahoma ok and that's why women and people know about their rights that we act in we had more been in nine hundred which came on the commission in we requested this 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 four years old maybe three and a half years old babies five year old babies while you have small girls fourteen

years old girl take it right. normally if. they injure their wife's the husband done to company 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 because actually the police reports mainly regard physical violence and. i believe the majority of women i can say ninety nine percent suffers psychological violence but it is in 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 going. but i found a woman in afghanistan without. a. break i'm no i won't get right in their husband. this. has been dry.

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