Daughters of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a country where extract is a fight. Poverty, diseases, poor health cargon, and starvation is an e genuinelyday struggle in daily life. If you be an Afghan adult female these issues are compounded by the fact that wo men are seen as creation objects. Women are not outlay as much as a man. Women in Afghanistan are seen as inferior. Women squirt be put to death for the slightest insinuation of an insult to a man. These are simply a few of the issues that the women and girls of Afghanistan face ein truth day. The tragic fact of the matter is that a lot of the hate and violence comes from man desire family members.Honor killings are allowed in Afghanistan. A woman does not horizontal put one across to do anything wrong to be killed. If in that respect is any end that the woman has embarrassed her family, she can be killed. Women in Afghanistan are very rarely habituated medical treatment. There are so umteen obstacles that Afghan women face that the legal age of women here in the United States cannot flush ideate. I k promptly I cannot imagine being set as chthonic just because I could not bear a son or children. I do not want to thus far try to speak up of the violence that these women face if they show any sign of disrespect.Afghan women are seen as mind little broodmares. Not all men see them this guidance but the majority of the male population does. Many men regularize that their religion teaches that women are not as smart as men and those women should be meek and obey what their economizes and fathers tell them to do. In 2004 a Canadian journalist traveled to Afghanistan to learn about Afghan womens rights. The expedition ended up being the base for her movie, Daughters of Afghanistan. In the movie journalist Sally Armstrong talks too close to(prenominal) women. She listens to their stories of their bravery and courage.In family of 1996, the Taliban took over Afghanistan. The Taliban forced women into their homes. T he Taliban would not even allow women to have health care or schooling. An Afghan woman could not even speak up of asking about birth control. Womens rights activists in Afghanistan look forrader to the day that women can walk around outside without consequences. There are some places like in Kabul where this can be done. However, in the rural areas many of the old ways still have control 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, one of the most(prenominal) important women in Afghanistan now are Dr. Sima Samar. Dr. Samar was born on February 4, 1957. After the fall of the Taliban, the Afghan organization promised that life would get better for women and girls. Dr. Samar agreed to an arranged marriage so that she could go to college. In 1982, she received her degree from Kabul University. Shortly later Dr. Samar had started practicing, she she had to leave to save her life. She fled back to her home village.She practiced medicine there until 1984. In 1984 her husband and son were arrested. After the arrest Dr. Samar and her family fled to Pakistan. From 1984 until 2002 she lived as a refugee. In 2002 she decided to return to Afghanistan. Dr. Samar has built clinics and shelter for women and children in Afghanistan. She has as well opened a school for women. Beside the schools and shelters Dr. Samar has also built clinics so that women and girls can receive medical treatment. After the fall of the Taliban, the government made a lot of empty promises.Dr Samir was made Deputy Prime Minister and Minster of Womens Affairs in the first government after the fall of the Taliban. Unfortunately, the Muslim fundamentalists came out. They made sure that she was seen as an enemy to the state, not someone that was exhausting to help . Because she was brave lavish to question practices that had been taking place for many generations soon after the f undamentalists spoke up she started receiving death threats. Doctor Samar is just one of the million women and girls that suffer in Afghanistan each day. Another woman who has face issues is Hamida.Hamida is the principal of one of Dr. Samars high schools. Hamida also faces death threats for being brave enough to teach women how to do tasks like using a computer and how to drive, so that they can get jobs and support themselves. Women are tough like pawns in a game. A good example of this is a woman named Camellah. She is not allowed to say no to her husband when he wants sex. She is meaning(a) and doesnt eer feel 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 view of using birth control.Birth control in most of the culture is unthinkable. Dr. Samar 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 t hat she is 13. She acts like a mother to her younger siblings. If it is hard for an older woman with children to survive, imagine how old it is for a child to try to raise 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 but they are very poor. Even though the Taliban has fallen, the Islamic fundamentalists have resurfaced in a unsound way. If a woman walks on the street even wearing her burqah, she is insulted and given 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 make their own decisions.They are still seen as less than tender in their culture. Yes the Taliban has fallen and thanks to brave women like Dr. Samar some women and girls are getting an education. Unfortunately there are not enough shelters or safe places where women and girls may go in order 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.Now 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. diversity may be slow to come to Afghanistan but as abundant 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.