The Struggle For Women's Rights Of Afghan Women

After the removal of the Taliban in 2001, many improvements began to rise for women, although women inequality was still evident. Enrollment for girl’s education in 2002 rose thirty percent and women could now go to work with the permission of male relatives (“Life as an Afghan Woman”). “Life as an Afghan Woman” states about infant and child mortality that “Fewer children die before age five. Child mortality has been decreased by half! Though the rate is still high, improvements in access to clean water, electricity and sanitation, as well as better educated mothers, have helped to save the lives of thousands of Afghan women.” Education has now began to make an impact in the lives of the young women who are given access to it, even though few …show more content…
Numerous setbacks continuously occurred in the process of extending women’s rights, and in fact, various post-2005 movements have had a negative effect towards the attitude of women’s equality in Afghanistan. The creation and enforcement of policies and laws related to women are extremely difficult because of the lack of recognition towards the equality problems. Also, many women are unable to participate in the process of women’s rights policies because of their lack of education, so they are unable to express their views in an effective way. The lack of material needed to improve women’s rights was due to the shortage of funding for institutions working for the Afghan women. There are also insufficiencies in international donors’ allocations for Afghanistan’s reconstruction efforts (The Global Research in International Affairs). The Afghanistan community has begun to support, in a sense, girls healthcare and education, but Afghan extremists and terrorists have made this difficult (The Global Research in International Affairs). “More schools close due to threats and attacks” (The Global Research in International Affairs) compared to the small number of schools that actually make a difference in the life of young girls. Women’s education is still being looked at as unnecessary by the patriarchal men in Afghan society because the men believe …show more content…
Although child marriage is legal, there have been many attempts to increase awareness against it. According to “Life as an Afghan Woman”, Human Rights Watch has urged Afghanistan to initiate awareness campaigns against the harms of child marriage and the violence that can occur in these relationship. “Life as an Afghan Woman” identifies in 2010 there had been 460 deaths/100,000 live births and the total live births per woman were at an average of six point one out of ten children who died before their fifth birthday. More than fifty percent of girls are married or engaged by the age of twelve, almost sixty percent of girls are married by sixteen. Eighty percent of marriages in poor rural areas are either forced or arranged and most girls marry far older men (some in their sixties) whom they first met at their wedding. Child marriage increases health risk factors for these girls: the risk of death during pregnancy or childbirth for girls under fourteen is five times higher than for adult women (“Life as an Afghan Woman”). According to the Central Statistical Organization Afghan women’s life expectancy in 2014 “is lower than life expectancy of men, mainly because of the related conditions of pregnancy and early marriage before age of 15 years.” Women are looked at as objects and because of the belief in men superiority,