What is life like for women under the gender-apartheid law of the Taliban militia?
• Women are not allowed to work outside of the home. • Girls and women are prohibited from attending schools and universities. • Women are forced to wear the burqa-a voluminous garment, which completely shrouds the body under layers of fabric, leaving only a small mesh opening through which to breathe and see. • Women can not leave the confines of their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative. • Women must paint their windows to hide themselves from view. • Male doctors are not allowed to examine women. • Women are forbidden to wear white socks, and their shoes can not make noise when they walk. • Women and men are stoned to death on the suspicion that they may have committed adultery and persons accused of homosexuality are also punished by death. What is the punishment for breaking Taliban rules? • Women have been stoned to death for traveling with a man who was not her relative. • Women have been beaten by the hundreds for not being “properly “dressed. • The ban on women w
