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Freedom At Last

© Charlotte Spell

American women have come a long way in promoting their own rights to live as equals among men in the United States. They have fought for rights to receive a college education, to work and receive equal wages, freedom of religion, to dress the way they choose to dress, to vote and to be soldiers and officers in the United States Armed Forces, if they so choose. Today, not only can a woman run a home, she can run a business as well. No woman should have to live in fear of her life for wanting to be free. These rights should not only be for women of the United States but for women internationally. When any woman any where is denied these rights then women everywhere in the world should speak out for only one voice can’t be heard but millions can and will be heard. The women in Afghanistan have gone through so many years of oppression by their government and today I read about something wonderful. The beginning of “Freedom at Last,” for these women. The seed to a future of women’s rights in Afghanistan. It is only the beginning and it will take the voices of women internationally to see that it continues. For this is not only a fight for their rights but a continuation of ours as well.

After the Northern Alliance this week captured Mazar-I-Sharif, a quote from one of the news lines this week gave the answer to many of the Afghanistan natives prayers. “In Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghans queued at barber shops to shave their beards, the sound of music blared from shops and women flung away the head-to-toe burqa veils as the first city taken from the Taliban threw off their draconian rules”, AIP said.

The following Links are all where you can find information on the Afghan women’s groups and the United States links where reader’s can get involved in the movement for woman’s right’s in Afghanistan. Some of these sites contain links to stories that are not suitable for children.

“RAWA is a political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan.” This is a quote from the website for RAWA. This site can be located at http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/ There you will find what the women of Afghanistan have had to endure since the capture of Afghanistan by the soon to be former “Taliban .”