Afghanistan

RECAP

The research I did on Afghanistan was about the Afghan women and what they had to go through. The research I did really explained the hardships that the Afghan women went and still go through today, such as not being able to go to school, wearing the all covering burqa, restriction from public life, the violence men put upon them, not being able to vote, forced marriages and the risks of childbirth. The women were not even allowed to seek medical attention from a male doctor. The women were never to go out of the house for a public life. When they did step out of the house they had to wear their burqa. The women also had to be escorted by a male when they left the house.

http://danedegenhardt.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/burqa_afghanistan_01.jpg

REVISIT

Today, some of those things have changed like some women are able to go to school now and women no longer have to wear their burqa. Other things have changed, but the women are too afraid from what the mean might do to them. Such as, the women are allowed the vote and go to school, but the women are afraid of getting acid thrown on them or poisoned and the schools being burned down. Even though things might seem better, some things still have not changed like the women are still forced into marriages, they are still treated in a violent manner and the risk at childbirth is still extremely high. The average life span for an Afghan woman is only forty-four years old. That is the lowest average life span in the world.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1445341/womens_rights_in_afghanistan_today.html

REFLECT

The situation in Afghanistan is not good at all. They do not even have a sense of Nationalism. Afghan men do not think of women as actual people. They keep them inside and refuse them of an education. When the women do go out to try to receive an education they are in extreme danger. They could get poisoned or burned. If Afghanistan had Nationalism then they would treat the women equal and make life better for them.