The Taliban: the dispossessed of women's rights in AfghanistanConsider this. There is a young Afghan girl who has never seen the outside world. The windows are painted so no one can see in, but they are so dark she can barely see outside. All she has are a few small stones or maybe a doll made of grass that she has to hide when someone comes in because it's illegal to have dolls. She never heard her mother's laugh and she never saw her face. She wonders what it's like to go outside, read, write, play with toys, hear laughter in the streets, and see pockets of color everywhere. In Afghanistan, it was a “crime” to be born a girl when the Taliban took power (Women in Afghanistan). The Taliban have deprived women of many rights, including the right to receive an education, their right to wear what they want, how they should appear in public, their right to work, and how they should carry out their duties. their functions. With these rights taken away, women can no longer express themselves as they did before. The Taliban influenced Afghan culture and women when they arrived. Before their arrival, people said that the freedom they enjoyed was similar to that which existed in the United States and Europe. Even if a woman had rights taken away, some rules were applied to her while others did not depend on who she married or her ethnicity. The two largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan are the Pashtuns, the largest, and the Tajiks, the second largest. For example, a woman cannot leave the house if she married a Pashtun (Dugan). All this depends on the behavior of women in Afghan society. Different places were influenced differently. Kabul happens to be one of those places. There were still strict rules but...... middle of paper ......by Source Plus. Internet. May 6, 2014. “Some of the Taliban's restrictions on women in Afghanistan. » Afghanistan Women's Revolutionary Association. Np, and Web. May 6, 2014. “Life as an Afghan woman.” Trust in education. Np, and Web. May 7, 2014. “Women in Afghanistan: the story.” » Amnesty International UK. Np, and Web. May 7, 2014. “The Taliban’s War on Women.” US Department of State. United States Department of State, nd Web. May 7 2014. .