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Current Conflicts of Afghanistan

Current Conflicts of Afghanistan. By: Nada. Social Issue: Women’s Rights. Discrimination against women’s voting rights, education, and personal security. Socio-beliefs on women’s education being unnecessary and dangerous. Only 12.6% of women in Afghanistan are educated.

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Current Conflicts of Afghanistan

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  1. Current Conflicts of Afghanistan By: Nada

  2. Social Issue: Women’s Rights • Discrimination against women’s voting rights, education, and personal security. • Socio-beliefs on women’s education being unnecessary and dangerous. • Only 12.6% of women in Afghanistan are educated. • Estimated 1 million extremely poor Afghan widowed women. • 50% of children under 5 suffer from malnutrition

  3. Why Where They Poor? • Lack of resources. • Limited arable (able to grow crops) land. • Rain and precipitation is rare. • Illiteracy of men and women is very low (about 90% of women, 63% of men are illiterate). • Income depends on agricultural activities (ex. farming, selling crops). • Lack of infrastructure materials. • CORRUPT GOVERNMENT!!!!

  4. Economical Issues • Average GDP of the nation is about $400-$800 per capita. • Lots of money sponsored from external nations/organizations (over $50 billion) were too heavily spent to pay for war debts. • The country was under Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001. They were extremely corrupt.

  5. Bibliography Works Cited • Asia Foundation. NajilaAyubi, 2013. Web. 7 Sept. 2013. <http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2010/01/27/womens-biggest-problems-in-afghanistan/>. • Operational World. Operational World, 2013. Web. 8 Sept. 2013. <http://www.operationworld.org/afgh>. • Pbs. Thirteen, 1 Aug. 2006. Web. 8 Sept. 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/flying-down-to-kabul/women-in-afghanistan/employment/2202/>. • Rural Poverty Portal. IFAD, 2013. Web. 8 Sept. 2013. <http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/country/home/tags/afghanistan>.

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