Afghan women’s status disrupted by war

Afghan women’s status disrupted by war

The war in Afghanistan allowed Afghan women to leave their homes to replace the men who had gone into combat. The question asked in this report is whether this movement is irreversible or whether women will be forced to return to their homes. Before the revolution, few women were revealed. The Soviet military intervention provoked, by reaction, a rise in power of the Muslims and it is not sure that in the future a tolerant Islam will benefit the Afghan women. The mullahs aspire to the return of sharia law, Islamic law. The images of Afghan women refugees in Kabul wearing the chador are commented by the journalist and punctuated by interviews with an Afghan army captain and the mullah of the great mosque in Kabul.

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File : Afghan women

Publication date : 1 April 1989