Physicians for Human Rights
Using science and medicine to stop human rights violationsThe Taliban's War on Women
A Health and Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan
August 1998
Read the report (pdf)The extent to which the Taliban regime has violated the human rights of Afghan women is unparalleled in recent history. This report contains compelling evidence of how a society in which women played a prominent role in the health professions, in government, and in teaching, has been replaced by one where to they are brutally beaten for walking on the street without a male chaperon. Such discrimination and the suffering it causes constitute an affront to the dignity and worth of Afghan women and humanity as a whole.
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