SILENCED AND OPPRESSED: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AFGHAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS UNDER TALIBAN RULE

Abstract

On August 31, 2021, the United States of America ended its 20-year war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is now completely under Taliban rule. People in Afghanistan and worldwide are growing increasingly interested as time passes in the Taliban's stance on women's rights and other human rights in general. The paper compares the Taliban's prior administration from 1996 to 2001 to examine the differences in their views on women's employment in the public sector and the right to education. The Taliban government's policies, implementation, and repercussions are under investigation in this paper.  First, the research found that the Taliban's stance on women and girls' rights to education had not altered under the current administration. Second, any alteration to women's rights may be seen as going against their culture and challenging their system of government. Thirdly, their way of governance is from ideology and plankton culture, which is inherently conservative and adamant about implementing on larger Afghan polity.