Why
U.S. can’t deliver women’s rights to Afghanistan
In
this week’s blog were back to Middle East, Afghanistan. It looks to me like the
women here have a long way to go. They come far but it’s not enough. This article
however focused more on how America cannot give Afghan women their rights! It has
to come from within the country, America can provide help and assistance but that’s
it. The author of this article, Malou Innocent, said that America has to stop promising
things they can’t come through with. She said this when U.S secretary of State
John Kerry met with female entrepreneurs and the captain of a women soccer team.
Innocent said that even though what their trying to do is noble and good intentioned
they just can’t do it. She goes on to say that if we have learned anything
during the past twelve years it should be that America is not very good at spreading
our western life style, especially not with a conservative culture like
Afghanistan and Iraq.
Since
the overthrow of the Taliban regime the quality of many women has improved but there
are still very powerful people in Afghan that are conservative and very custom
to traditions. President Hamid Karzai seems to not care much about the subject,
and local government does the same. There have been many cases of girls being
raped, tortured and even stoned to death because they tried to run away from
their abusers. Sure on paper women have come a long way but in practice not so
much. If the government aren’t going to enforce the laws they claim to abbey by
then nothing is ever going to change.
The author of this article is seatrain that someday change will come, it
might not be as soon as we wish but it will. She believes that it has to come
from within the country as she put it from the roots up. We need to let them
deal with their issues as a country without overshadowing them at every step.
Dalila Aguilar
4/18/13
12:36
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