Daughters of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a coun analyse where option is a fight. Poverty, diseases, poor health c ar, and famishment is an everyday struggle in everyday liveness. If you argon an Afghan fair sex these issues argon compounded by the fact that women ar seen as being objects. Women be non worth as much as a man. Women in Afghanistan ar seen as inferior. Women sewer be put to termination for the slightest insinuation of an insult to a man. These are upright a few of the issues that the women and girls of Afghanistan vista every day. The sad fact of the national is that a lot of the hate and personnel comes from male family members.Honor killings are bothowed in Afghanistan. A muliebrity does non n maventhe little chip in to do anything wrong to be killed. If in that respect is any inclination that the woman has embarrassed her family, she can be killed. Women in Afghanistan are very rarely assumption medical treatment. in that location are so approximately obstacles t hat Afghan women face that the mass of women here in the United States can non point guess. I know I cannot imagine being set aside just because I could not bear a son or children. I do not want to even try to have in mind of the violence that these women face if they demonstrate any sign of disrespect.Afghan women are seen as mindless broodmares. Not all men see them this way merely the majority of the male population does. umteen men say that their religion t from each cardinales that women are not as smart as men and those women should be meek and come aft(prenominal) what their husbands and fathers tell them to do. In 2004 a Canadian journalist traveled to Afghanistan to learn well-nigh Afghan womens rights. The trip stop up being the base for her word-painting, Daughters of Afghanistan. In the movie journalist Sally Armstrong negotiation too many women. She listens to their stories of their bravery and courage.In September of 1996, the Taliban took over Afghanistan. The Taliban forced women into their homes. The Taliban would not even allow women to have health care or schooling. An Afghan woman could not even opine of request about birth program line. Womens rights activists in Afghanistan look forward to the day that women can walk around outside without consequences. There are about menages uniform in Kabul where this can be d iodine. However, in the rural areas many of the gaga ways keep mum have hold and women are not allowed to be out of their houses.In the rural areas animals are still seen to be worth more than a woman or girl. In Daughter of Afghanistan, unmatchable of the most important women in Afghanistan directly are Dr. Sima Samar. Dr. Samar was born on February 4, 1957. aft(prenominal) the fall of the Taliban, the Afghan government promised that life would lend wagerer for women and girls. Dr. Samar agreed to an place marriage so that she could go to college. In 1982, she caused her degree from Kabul University. shortly after Dr. Samar had started practicing, she she had to leave to save her life. She fled pole to her home village.She practiced medicine there until 1984. In 1984 her husband and son were arrested. later the arrest Dr. Samar and her family fled to Pakistan. From 1984 until 2002 she lived as a refugee. In 2002 she decided to re human action to Afghanistan. Dr. Samar has built clinics and entertain for women and children in Afghanistan. She has also opened a school for women. Beside the schools and auspicess Dr. Samar has also built clinics so that women and girls can receive medical treatment. later on the fall of the Taliban, the government made a lot of empty promises.Dr Samir was made alternate Prime Minister and Minster of Womens personal business in the first government after the fall of the Taliban. Unfortunately, the Islamic fundamentalists came out. They made current that she was seen as an enemy to the state, not individual that was trying to help . Because s he was brave overflowing to question practices that had been taking place for many generations soon after the fundamentalists spoke up she started receiving ending threats. Doctor Samar is just one of the million women and girls that suffer in Afghanistan each day. An new(prenominal) woman who has face issues is Hamida.Hamida is the psyche of one of Dr. Samars high schools. Hamida also faces death threats for being brave enough to larn women how to do tasks wish well using a computer and how to drive, so that they can get jobs and support themselves. Women are treated like pawns in a game. A smashing example of this is a woman named Camellah. She is not allowed to say no to her husband when he wants sex. She is pregnant and doesnt ceaselessly witness like having sex. This baby will be her ninth baby. Camillah is afraid that she will not survive this childbirth. She is not allowed to even think of using birth control.Birth control in most of the culture is unthinkable. Dr. Sa mar is one of the women that is trying to change that view. Another girl in the movie is Lima. Lima is not even sure how old she is. She thinks that she is 13. She acts like a mother to her younger siblings. If it is weighty for an older woman with children to survive, imagine how old it is for a child to try to refer other children under this type of repression. A fourth woman in the movie is Soghra. She is a widow and pregnant with her seventh child. She was brave enough to walk for ennead nights to avoid the Taliban so that she could find shelter in Dr. Samars refuge. Her husband did turn out to be alive only when they are very poor. Even though the Taliban has fallen, the Islamic fundamentalists have resurfaced in a bad way. If a woman walks on the street even wearing her burqah, she is insulted and accustomed hateful, angry, looks. Some things have changed but a lot has not changed for women. Yes, now some women do go to school and receive medical care, for the majority of women and girls, unfortunately this is not the case. Women and girls are still forced to marry, they still have to obey their husbands, they cannot chip in their proclaim decisions.They are still seen as less than human in their culture. Yes the Taliban has fallen and convey to brave women like Dr. Samar some women and girls are getting an education. Unfortunately there are not enough shelters or steady-going places where women and girls whitethorn go in sanctify to be safe. Safe from their own family. That is one of the most horrible things that I think goes on. Women cannot even feel safe with their husbands, fathers, uncles, or sometimes even brothers. The human rights disasters that took place under the Taliban were front page news. direct since the fall of the Taliban, the western world seems to have forgotten about these women and children of Afghanistan. They are the forgotten daughters of Afghanistan. Change may be decompress to come to Afghanistan but as considerabl e as people like Dr. Samar and other women stand up, there is always hope. When a person has hope there always seems to be a way to make a better tomorrow. Change may be too late for some women but for Afghan daughters and granddaughters, they may be able to have a better life than what their mothers and grandmothers did.