Women are struggling to keep their rights, which they have fought for for years

Women are fighting to protect their rights while the Taliban impose more restrictive measures to decrease their power.

Some restrictive measures that confine their freedom are the following:

• Women already wear burqas to cover their face even if it is not mandatory just because they fear of the Taliban.

• Their faces are being erased from posters and advertisements in the streets and the future of the next generation of girls is still unclear.

• Women are banned from every sport event and activity and little girls are seen in the streets, working as shoe shiners.

The situation is getting worse every day and the Taliban refuse to pay attention to what women ask for which is their rights.

• Afghan women cannot travel more than 72 kilometers without a male relative. It is illegal for drivers to give rides to women traveling alone. This is something that prevents women from running away when they face domestic violence.

• Women cannot appear on TV shows and movies and female journalists and presenters are supposed to wear headscarves.

<<According to a report released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in August, most female employees of media organizations stopped working after the Taliban takeover.>>

• Established in 2001, the Women's Affairs Ministry was abolished by the Taliban in September.

Its office now houses the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Ministry.

• ” Most secondary schools for teenage girls are closed to prevent girls from receiving higher education.

• The Taliban continue to eliminate women from workplaces.

<<In September, one of the Taliban's senior figures told the Reuters news agency that Afghan women should not work alongside men. That statement was followed by another decree issued by the interim mayor ordering female employees of Kabul's city government to stay home.>>

• The Taliban’s education minister, announced in September that gender segregation and Islamic dress code will be mandatory in universities.

<<All female students, teachers and staff must wear an Islamic abaya robe and niqab that covers the hair, body and most of the face, according to the regulations issued by the Education Ministry.>>

Women have protested and been assaulted with rifle butts, tear gas and metal clubs because of their courage.

Something has to be done to protect women's rights and help them regain them.

"Women's rights are human rights"

That's what women in Afghanistan said while protesting for their rights and that's what they ask for, to be treated as humans and not stigmatized because of their sex.

Source: Ghaedi, Monir. “Taliban Are Revoking Afghan Women's Hard-Won Rights: DW: 02.01.2022.” DW.COM, Deutsche Welle, 2 Jan. 2021, https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-are-revoking-afghan-womens-hard-won-rights/a-60283590.