“On September 27, 1996, the Taliban, an extremist militia, seized control of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, and violently plunged the occupied territories of Afghanistan into a brutal state of gender apartheid in which women and girls have been stripped of their basic human rights” (Taliban & Afghan Women: Background). The laws for women under the Taliban left them virtually no rights or freedoms. The impact of the Taliban imposed restrictions was most acutely felt in cities such as Kabul, where women had enjoyed relatively greater freedoms. “When the Taliban took over the capital city of Kabul in September 1996, it issued an edict that stripped women and girls of their rights, holding the Afghan people hostage under a brutal system of gender apartheid” (Hanford, Cindy). One of the Taliban’s edicts in 1997 called for a nationwide ban on public education for all women and girls.
The assault on the status of women began immediately after the Taliban took power in Kabul. The Taliban closed the women’s university and forced nearly all women to quit their jobs. It restricted access to medical care for women, brutally enforced a restrictive dress code, and limited the ability of women to move about the city. The Taliban committed horrible acts of violence against women, including rape, abduction, and forced marriage. Some families resorted to sending their daughters to Pakistan or Iran to protect them.
The National Women’s Party protested in front of the white house, holding banners that spoke against Wilson. When WWI started, some felt it wasn’t right to fight during wartime. The picketers got arrested and sent to jail. They were treated horribly in jail. The ladies then started a hunger strike.
In total, at least 7386,000 people were murdered all because tyrannical, self-obsessed leaders wanted to further their own ends. Develop own thoughts and relate them back to the topic. In Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Crucible’ , Abigail Williams acts as a catalyst for the literal witch hunt which ensues, a parallel for the metaphorical witch hunt that played out in the Unites States in the ‘50s and ‘60s as any person with a link to the Communist party was “hunted out” and forced to confess at the HUAC. Abigail creates massive conflict in Salem, pointing the finger away from her own mistakes, pretending to act as ‘God’s finger’. However when she realizes she has an opportunity to further her own ends even further; where she and john Proctor can be together again.
Their lyrics were controversial that included expletives and expressed violence against women, including raping, torturing, stalking and beating of women. The parents of Elyse Pahler decided to seek justice for their daughter. The parents observed that all previous law suits against producers of violent entertainment have been thrown out in the United States on First Amendment grounds. They took a different approach in seeking
( Bezau 2007). B) First Nation children suffered physical and emotional abuse. 1) I was torn away from my family and herded away to be 'scalped' by nuns, and powered with DDT, then showered in severely hot water. ( Acoose 1995). 2) The nuns' threats of eternal damnation, of haunting visits from Satan himself or the desperate souls of purgatory intensified my fears.
Ashley Stewart Strayer University ENG 115, (Section Number 24) Dr. Brandy Wilson 8/15/10 The Cruelty of Female Genital Mutilation Towards Women in Africa The Cruelty of Female Genital Mutilation Towards Women in Africa Throughout the continent of Africa an unspeakable cruelty of female genital mutilation towards the females in Africa has become a conflict that just being a women means struggling to survive. This traditional practice has been going on for a long time. It’s now to a point where the women of Africa are becoming the victim of a common tradition in Africa. There are millions of women and girls in Africa who are at risk of experiencing one form of another of genital mutilation.
Women all over were rounded up and stolen as “prostitutes” (sex-slaves) for the Japanese soldiers. Houses were broken into at random, and girls who were barely old enough to walk, and old women who were so crippled by time that they too could barely walk, were raped in from of their entire families. Women and girls were gang-raped in the streets so violently that those who ruptured and bled out were the lucky ones, for the survivors had to deal with the mental and physical scarring for years to come; a startling number committed suicide. Chang speaks of massive numbers of women a time later who, after giving birth to Japanese babies and were in such emotional turmoil that they threw themselves into the Yangzi River. In homes, incest was forced upon families.
Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses rapidly became one of the most widely known and controversial books in the world when it was published in 1988. Reviled by much of the international Muslim community, the novel was banned in India and protested across the world for its portrayal of certain sensitive topics such as the wives of the chief Islamic prophet Muhammad and the infallibility of the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an. After the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini issued a “fatwa,” or Islamic judicial decree, that Rushdie and those involved in the publication of the book be killed, the novel made headline news across the globe and inspired a diplomatic crisis between countries, including Britain and Iran. Although The Satanic Verses does address the religious beliefs and practices of Islam, this is only one aspect of a complex and highly allusive novel that produces a broad and ambitious commentary about the philosophical and religious problem of good and evil. In fact, Rushdie’s novel is steeped in commentary about British and South Asian politics and culture; it takes on a diverse variety of themes involving cultural and racial identities (particularly Asian and African immigrant identities), and it is concerned with literary aesthetics and the nature of truth.
In 1996 the University of Kabul reportedly had several thousand women students while thousands of professional women worked in different capacities in the city. When the Taliban toke over, women were not allowed to attend school and others have been forced to leave their jobs. The Taliban had issued edicts forbidding women from working outside the home, except in limited circumstances in the medical field. Hardest hit were the 30,000 widows in Kabul and others elsewhere in the country, who are the sole providers of their family. Women and girls were not allowed to appear outside the home unless wearing a head to toe garment called the burqa.