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Delegates Work Hard Towards a Resolution on the Human Rights Council
February 27, 2011. 12:02PM PST
By: Kira Winn
Pajhwok Afghan News

Things appear to be going smoothly today in the Human Rights Council as they work on their draft resolution dealing with woman’s rights to education in Afghanistan. All of the delegates present seem to agree that this is an issue that needs to be looked into and dealt with, and they have come up with what they feel are some good first steps.

As Islamic beliefs dictate that woman shouldn’t be seen by men, and this is one of the main issues of girls being educated, the implementation of schools segregated by gender seems to be a solution for this. If the only people in the school were girls, being taught by female teachers, then men wouldn’t have to see or interact with the woman as they were being educated. Out of fear that these complexes might be targeted by the Taliban security would patrol the area in order to protect the woman there but they would not be able to see them. Busses, if possible, would be provided to transport the girls as many attacks on them occur as they are walking to or from school. This would also allow people who live far away from the school a way to get there. The delegates are also supporting home schooling, which has proven effective in areas overrun by the Taliban before.

In Afghanistan’s constitution, it states that education should be free, so furthering awareness and exercise of this fact is being focused on as well. Afghanistan also supports woman’s human rights, which state that no woman should be forced to marry, and does not support arranged marriages, which are one of the top reasons that woman in Afghanistan are unable to get an education. They are talking about the creation of safe houses and programs for woman who are forced into arranged marriages and don’t want to be there.

The various countries’ fear of being targeted by the Taliban for providing aid increased dramatically after the Wikileaks article yesterday implying that the Taliban might be in possession of nuclear capsules, so they have agreed to forestall the implementation of these measures until after the threat of a potentially nuclear-armed Taliban is dealt with.