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New @AANafgh piece takes on the supposed urban/rural and elite/non-elite divide on women’s rights in Afghanistan, based on interviews with rural women. Turns out no one likes the life the Taliban wants to dictate to them. https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/special-reports/new-special-report-between-hope-and-fear-rural-afghan-women-talk-about-peace-and-war/ …pic.twitter.com/z9KUOxYhS7
This report is very timely and important. Leading Afghan women rights activists have faced abusive attitudes for decades from men who dismiss them as elites who are out of touch with the broad spectrum of Afghan women. This has always been based primarily on misogyny, not fact.
Foreign actors have often bought into this too--not so much out of a genuine concern for knowing what matters to rural women, but more as a way of being able to dismiss and minimize women's rights concerns activists were raising that were inconvenient.
I don't think its a surprise to any women that it's pretty hard to find women who are enthusiastic about women being denied access to education, health care, employment & freedom of movement. But maybe it will help end some of the harmful & sexist rhetoric about "Kabul elites."
In this moment of crisis in Afghanistan it is more important than ever to listen to Afghan women's rights activists.
Please also have a look at our work on how rising Taliban control & rising violence are not the only threats to Afghan women/girls--they are also hit by aid cuts to essential services, which is something foreign donors can fully control, if they choose.https://twitter.com/heatherbarr1/status/1390195087343296516?s=20 …
what keeps my mind occupied is that back then before 2001 - large swathes of society wanted to listen to music yet kept living under its ban and did so. The question is if the Taliban take over will the opposition fight back - either way only a peace deal can be a good outcome.
Unfortunately little was done for those women living in rural areas,for various reasons &one of them was the inequality within the gender class dividing women into two categories modern “advance” & the illiterate “backwards”this social imagery created a gap 4research & support!
Nobody likes to live in a dictatorship, nonetheless millions do I dare say billions of people do. Is NATO to safe them all? You may say we gave them a chance for 20 years. If they want their freedom, this is probably their last chance.
Has it ever been to the choice of people? Everything is being imposed on the people not only the laws that Taliban want to put in place. Local militia, corrupt leaders, awful governance, allocation by parties & leaders have caused all the mess similarly.
Nevertheless Taliban is apparently coming back, as soon as the dust settles. A gift from the Americans.
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