The situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power is tense.
Women and girls in particular fear for their lives and their rights.
Kabul - The Taliban have taken power in the Afghan capital Kabul.
Many people are fleeing the country out of fear for their lives.
Women and girls in particular have to fear for their rights - and some even for their lives.
An Islamic state according to the ideas of the Taliban would mean an enormous step backwards for the women in the country.
In the past twenty years women's rights in Afghanistan had improved dramatically.
As reported by Deutsche Welle, under the rule of the Taliban in the 1990s, women were not allowed to leave the house without a burqa and male escort.
Girls were not allowed to go to school, women were not allowed to work.
Women's rights activists fear that the country could now revert to these rules.
Taliban in Afghanistan: What is the situation of women in Kabul?
There are already the first signs of this.
According to CNN reporter Clarissa Ward from Kabul, her presence sparked tension among some Taliban supporters - she was advised to step aside because she was a woman.
According to the journalist, there were far fewer women on the streets of Kabul than usual.
The few women they dared to leave the house were also dressed more conservatively than they were a few days ago.
At the same time, a Taliban commander assured the journalist that women and girls could go on with their lives as before.
"Women can still go to school and complete their education, but in an Islamic burqa," says the commandant.
The
Associated Press
reports
that Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban's Culture Commission, has called on Afghan women to support the Taliban government.
"The Islamic emirate does not want women as its victims," he said.
"According to Sharia law, you should be part of the government." Samangani was vague about the details of this ruling.
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After the Taliban invaded Kabul, workers remove pictures of women in the city.
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Women in Afghanistan report that they are forced to marry and are banned from working
Several Afghan women reported to Deutsche Welle in Kabul that they had fled their provinces from the Taliban. "I want to study, but the Taliban didn't allow us to go to school," a youth told DW. Another woman told of how the Taliban came to the mosques and announced that their fighters would marry widows and young women. Many women also had to cede their jobs to male relatives.
Observers warn that the Taliban will implement their radical Islamist ideas at the latest when international attention for Afghanistan weakens.
Women's rights activists in particular are at risk, says German women's rights activist Monika Hauser in an interview with the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
.
At the moment it is still difficult to save the women from the country because many cannot leave the house without military protection.
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