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The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

Book by Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi; Harvard University Press, 2008

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--1989-2001, Afghanistan--History--2001-, Taliban

Collections: History, Entire Library

...lack of treatment. The women suffered more than the men, because the Taliban would not allow them...male doctors. For the Taliban, if a woman was sick, it was better...58 She described a woman at the hospital she...physicians on staff. The Taliban rules hit working-class women, especially single...
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Women of the Afghan War

Book by Deborah Ellis; Praeger Publishers, 2000

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--1989-, Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989--Personal Narratives, Oral History, Taliban, Women--Afghanistan--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

Taliban have also put children...Voice of Sharia which is Taliban controlled, announced that 225 women had been arrested and...clothing laws. 22 A woman in Kabul in October of...nail polish. 23 When women are punished, they must...the burqa. After the Taliban took control over Kabul...
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Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad

Book by David B. Edwards; University of California Press, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--Saur Revolution, 1978, Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989

Collections: History, Entire Library

...province of Khost has demanded of Taliban authorities to hand over the...least 6 persons, including a woman, were killed and 2 women injured in fighting between a local tribe and Taliban officials in Khost on Wednesday...fighting game, they said. Taliban officials stopped the children...
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With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Book by Anne E. Brodsky; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Revolutionary Association Of The Women Of Afghanistan--History, Women In Politics--Afghanistan, Women--Afghanistan--Social Conditions

Collections: Entire Library

...experience underground life under the Taliban. Maybe RAWA thought I could teach...While the idea of sending a young woman into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan for schooling...of the poor quality of the local Taliban-run schools available for boys...
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Women Screenwriters Today: Their Lives and Words

Book by Marsha McCreadie; Praeger, 2006

Subjects:

Motion Picture Authorship--United States, Women Screenwriters--United States--Biography

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...she heard about an American woman reporter captured by the Taliban, and thrown in jail. But the woman was so obstreperous and very...like-that ultimately the Taliban released her. Anderson felt...by a number of contemporary women screenwriters, Anderson observes...

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Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era

Journal article by Irina Gambs; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era. by Irina Gambs Rosemarie Skaine...Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era attempts to evaluate changes...Afghanistans women since the fall of the Taliban. Despite the books dense documentation...
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Reconstruction in Post-taliban Afghanistan: Women and Education

Journal article by Hayat Alvi; Resources for Feminist Research, Vol. 30, 2003

Subjects:

Afghanistan, Islam, Postwar reconstruction, Women, Women's education

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...single Afghan refugee woman (who constitute the...ventures.(8) The Taliban also made every effort to cut off women from any income source...from the shadows of the Taliban, Afghan women and men...Yet even in the post-Taliban era, it is not reassuring...posts have been given to women, and one of these ministers...replaced by another woman for that post, but...
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Should the United States Officially Recognize the Taliban? the International Legal and Political Considerations

Journal article by Christopher L. Gadoury; Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 23, 2001

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Politics and government, Recognition (International law)--Planning, Taliban--Political activity

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...protected by the Taliban and promote further abuse to Afghan women.(258) One woman was fatally beaten...can now treat women, as long as the woman does not object.(269) The Taliban have also eased restrictions on women working.(270...
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The Taliban: an Organizational Analysis

Journal article by Shahid Afsar, Chris Samples, Thomas Wood; Military Review, Vol. 88, 2008

Subjects:

Afghanistan, Armed forces, Influence, Military history, Minority & ethnic groups, Religion, Taliban-Afghanistan, Terrorism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of Islamic law. The Taliban banned television, music...dancing; prohibited women from attending school...bin-Laden, and the Taliban hosted Al-Qaeda training...violates the honor of a woman in the family, revenge...infraction occurs. The Taliban has used badal to recruit...
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The Women of Afghanistan

Journal article by Carol Tell; Social Education, Vol. 66, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Social aspects, Social sciences--Study and teaching, Taliban--Social policy, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...get beaten. One woman said, I stayed...We heard that women were beaten for...brutally during Taliban rule, the main...home. Even if a women was ill and needed...male escort. One woman described, My husband...There were three Taliban. One of them beat...expectancy for an Afghan woman is 44 years old...health conditions of women living in Kabul under the Taliban. (14) One hundred...

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Speaking from Behind the Veil: A Foreign-Aid Worker's Latest Book Explores the Roles and Worldviews of Rural Afghani Women Who Lived in the Shadow of the Fundamentalist Taliban Regime

Magazine article by Diana Ray; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, December 24, 2001

Subjects:

Blind Chickens and Social Animals (Book)--Evaluation, Pont, Anna M.--Authorship, Taliban--Laws, regulations, etc., Women--Care and treatment

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...spaces, one can observe women bending the rules. Walking...Prevention of Vice. One woman boldly placed herself...back and laughed, `The Taliban dont like this!" According...findings, even the age of a woman played a part in how bound she was to Taliban edicts. As 70-year...move alone. Now, young women cant travel alone from...
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When Foreign Intervention Is Justified Women under the Taliban

Magazine article by Rose V. Lindgren; The Humanist, Vol. 62, July 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Social aspects, Muslim women--Civil rights, Taliban--Social policy, Women's rights--Afghanistan, Women, Muslim--Civil rights

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...that their policy for women emanated directly from...and culture. "If a woman wants to work away from...Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, Taliban Minister of Justice...percent to 98 percent of women in Taliban-controlled...a committee of five women to be responsible for...toward building a post-Taliban government, the Northern...by Amena Afzali, a woman. This amazing leap...
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RAWA: Women Standing Up to the Taliban

Magazine article by John Elvin; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, September 24, 2001

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Foreign relations, Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan--Management, Taliban--Social aspects, bin Laden, Osama--Foreign relations

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RAWA: Women Standing Up to the Taliban by John Elvin Guilt by association...government is content with giving his Taliban hosts nothing more than an economic...plots. And that says nothing of Taliban behavior toward citizens and guests...
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Underground against the Taliban

Magazine article by Katha Pollitt; The Nation, Vol. 270, May 29, 2000

Subjects:

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan--Political activity, Taliban--Ethical aspects, Women--Afghanistan

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...carpet-weaving, that women can do while confined...passive, mysterious Muslim woman enticingly hidden behind...Last November, when the Taliban summoned the women of Kabul to witness that...public execution of a woman, a RAWA member brought...demonstrate against the Taliban in Pakistan, where their...
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Taliban Demands Rigid Conformity

Magazine article by Timothy W. Maier; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, October 22, 2001

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Politics and government, Atrocities--Afghanistan, Islamic fundamentalism--Afghanistan, Social structure--Afghanistan, Taliban--Powers and duties, Women--Crimes against

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...defeated in a decadelong war. The Taliban, a militia of fanatically...retaliatory attack against the Taliban, which has harbored terrorist...large cloth which covers a woman from head to toe, she saw abandoned women, denied employment outside...wearing white shoes was beaten by Taliban officials because the color...

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Taliban Frees Two Women after Afghan Kidnap of 23 South Koreans

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 14, 2007

Subjects:

International Committee of the Red Cross, Kidnapping, Koreans, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Taliban Frees Two Women after Afghan Kidnap of...Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban in mid-July were freed...executed by gunfire. Fourteen women and five men are still...a ransom payment. The Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef...
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SOFTEST TARGETS; Three Women Charity Workers Gunned Down by Taliban

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 14, 2008

Subjects:

Charities, Working women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...SOFTEST TARGETS; Three Women Charity Workers Gunned Down by Taliban. Byline: BY MAURICE FITZMAURICE A WOMAN who worked in a Northern...been slaughtered in a Taliban ambush along with two...battlefields. Last night the Taliban claimed responsibility and branded the women "spies". George Rupp...
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Afghan Women Train as Police to Take on the Taliban

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 11, 2011

Subjects:

Police officers--Training, Police--Training, Working women--Training

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...North once persecuted by the Taliban. When she was at school in...particularly for searching women at checkpoints. On her first...out, one policewoman found a woman concealing a radio switch for...brutal, on a par with the Taliban. Rogue policemen have turned...point towards a new future for women in education in Afghanistan...
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Taliban Hang Woman and Son for Alleged Spying

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 10, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Taliban Hang Woman and Son for Alleged Spying. Byline...CHRISTOPHER Daily Post Correspondent SUSPECTED Taliban militants hanged an old woman and her...of Islam to go against Islam." The Taliban have stepped up attacks in southern Afghanistan...
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Taliban Kill First Woman Soldier Sarah

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 19, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Taliban Kill First Woman Soldier Sarah. Byline: By Kevin Schofield A WOMAN was one of four British soldiers...Land Rover was blown up by a Taliban roadside bomb in Helmand Province...a change in tactics by the Taliban. Brown added: "They are...we sending our young men and women to fight, and possibly die...

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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate; she was the first woman to gain a major partys vice presidential nomination. Reagan...those who harbored them, Bush demanded that Afghanistans Taliban government turn over Osama bin Laden , a Saudi-born Islamic...
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Canada

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Freedoms, which guarantees the rights of women and native peoples and protects other...who became (June, 1993) Canadas first woman prime minister. Widespread anger over...in operations against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. In 2002, Chretiens cabinet...

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