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 Taliban was also the cause for why women weren’t allowed to be educated thus leading to the Malala Yousafzai incident. Malala Yousafzai was a young schoolgirl who protested for female education, she wrote a blog explaining her life under the Taliban and wrote about her beliefs in having female education. Malala was negatively influence by religious fundamentalism when she was shot in the head on her school bus by the Taliban. Luckily enough she survived but
Current Event A 26 year old women is forced to marry an Isis police chief. Every little girl dreams of that white dress, of her wedding night," says Hanan, her voice starting to waver. "I have been deprived of that. "Hanan is not the woman's real name. They took he father captive and told her mom that Hanan had to marry an Isis Police officer to be able to release her father.
The mission of the NAWSA was to fight for women’s rights and to also gain respect for all women in the United States. Alice Paul along with her friend Lucy Burns began to think of many ideas to help the suffrage movement but the NAWSA thought that their ideas were to extreme and would only cause problems for women in America. So Alice Paul and Lucy Burns started their own organization called the National Women’s Party or NWP. Which held the same concepts that the NAWSA but with a more radical or extreme approach. The NAWSA started criticizing the NWP for their methods and for protesting a president during the war.
Maria’s mother acts fast and hides Maria and Alberto in the hole her father made for their safety. Maria’s mother scarifies herself for the safety of her children. If Maria’s mother went into the hole with them the Contras would of notice the untouched breakfast on the table and would search for them and kill them all. By Maria’s mother staying behind the Contras thought they got everyone in the house and would not search for Maria and Alberto. Trauma begins when Maria hears everything from the hole and the torturing and screaming of her mother.
The siblings, and Echardt were asked to remove the armbands; consequences for failing to do so were suspension until after New Year’s Day, and confiscation of the armbands. Even knowing the consequences the brother and sister team did not care, nor did Christopher, they wore the black bands anyway and were eventually sent home. They appealed to the district court arguing their rights were being violated, but ended up losing the case because the district court decided that the action of the school was reasonable. Unhappy with the results the Tinker siblings appealed to the Supreme Court. Legal concepts- The two amendments in question are (the right to freedom of speech granted by) the First Amendment, and the (right to be equally protected under the law given to us by) the Fourteenth Amendment.
Ellie Ellie changed from a normal teenager into a soldier. Initially her biggest worry was about her parents giving permission to her for her camping trip. Before they came out of the bush Ellie thought she was safe. But when she came out and found out that there was a war going on her life was changed. She had to give permissions to herself because her parents had been captured.
Iran has strict rules for clothes that only women have to follow. In the novel,Persepolisshows the diversity of Iranian people and how religion can go too far, making people lives worse. The war with Iraq made things wicked. Many families decided to move on, and left Iran. While others decided to stay and suffer the cruelty on many aspects during the 1980s.
The white people decided that they wanted to take the land away from the Indians and formed a government against the Indians. The children were taken to these reservations for education but they were not allowed to know about their heritage, they had to learn the American way. This was hard for the elders to understand, they wanted their
The Taliban were holding women back in society due to their laws, treatment, and attitudes regarding them. Women under the Taliban were mistreated, degraded, and discriminated against. We need to make people aware of the deprivation and suffering that Afghan women faced under the Taliban. Women before the Taliban had decent lives compared to the lives they would lead under the rule of the Taliban. In the latter part of the 20th century, women were making steps forward, being granted the right to both employment and education.