Afghan Women



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Between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban Muslim fundamentalist movement established a tyrannical regime in Afghanistan that ruthlessly suppressed women's rights. Women were forced to wear burkas in public and prohibited from working. Ironically, during the long civil war that brought the Taliban to power, women had assumed a more prominent social role constituting, until 1995, over two thirds of teachers and 60 per cent of medical workers.

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Taliban; Afghanistan

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