The
Taliban Attack: Why Women's Issues Are a Top Global Concern
The Taliban will go to extreme
measures to silence the voices of women and girls with hatred intended to destroy any advances
given to women and girls under the banner of freedom and liberty, in the name
of basic human rights. But this is not human rights at all. Earlier this week,
a Taliban extremist shot and wounded a young girl in a planned political assassination.
The girl is a teenage activist named, Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted
for having “western views”. She is known as a peace icon and a tireless
activist for the rights of women and girls and became famous for documenting
the brutal and vicious world of the Taliban, and having a well known blog that
gained global attention. This attack was basically to set an example to women
and girls that the Taliban did not want them to adopt western ideology such as:
equal rights, education, mate selection, freedom of speech and so on. Yousafzai
said that President Barack Obama was her idol; he and Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, together for the first time have famed the well-being of women
and girls as part of the official U.S. foreign policy strategy. And, thanks to
national reform efforts and the presence of U.S. troops and allies in
Afghanistan, the rights of women and girls in this region have grown as
individual freedoms have flourished. Now women go to school, graduate
from universities, are prosecutors, judges, and women healthcare looks better
because of the decline in maternal and infant mortality from the Taliban.
However, what will happen when our troops leave in 2014?
That
question is what should be the most important. Will the Taliban retaliate and
kill all women and girls they come across in position of equal standing as men?
And will they still be able to live like they are now with human rights. It is
very sad that these women still have to go through things like this when all
they want to a simple education. Other countries are so threaten by “western
views” that they go to extreme links to keep their people from following these
ways. Even as far as, walking a bus and shooting a 14 year old girl in the
face. Women are constantly beaten, tortured, raped, forced into marriages, and
punished in areas controlled by the Taliban. We must all work together to end
this because this is not only happening in the middle-east, but everywhere
around the globe including America. This month is Domestic Violence Awareness
and 9 times out of 10 women are the victims. A change needs to come about not
just for human rights, but for the rights of our children who will be growing
up to this madness of inequality.
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