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Women's Education in Pakistan

Human Rights: In America and in Pakistan

The Taliban use scare tactics to control people.

Pakistani culture often stands in the way of women attaining an education.

Malala Yousafzai

Hina Khan

Literacy: 99% and 36%

-Parents are threatened by Taliban to not send their daughters to school.

-Acid throwing/schools attacked/shootings

-Many women are standing up for their rights, despite being threatened by Taliban.

With the Human Right Laws... what SHOULD it look like?

Despite threats, many women in Pakistan are continuing to speak out for their educational rights and equality.

The Taliban dislike anything that has to do with Western culture, including education that is influenced by it.

Taliban leaders have said that they will not allow their women to receive a western education.

Reasons educated women are targets in Pakistan:

(Qari Muhavia)

The Taliban destroy schools and have a history of attacking women on their way to school.

”If and when we find any girl from Parachinar going to university for an education we will target her (in) the same way, so that she might not be able to unveil her face before others.”

-Quari Muhavia

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Pakistan/United-States/Education

Fazal Hayat or Fazlullah

Hakimullah Mehsud

The Taliban wants to control people.

They see educated people as a threat.

-Cultural Expectations

-Taliban's dislike of Westernization

-Taliban's fear of losing power and control

Introduction

Article 26

Human Rights Laws

Meet Malala

1. "Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit."

2. "Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace."

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Domino Effect

“My problem is to keep the Muslim women right. If they get a handle, as they did over the Kanpur Mosque incident, they will force their husbands and male relationships to do something for Islam. No government in the East can control a combination of priests and women.” (Francis Robinson- Historian)

First All-Russian Congress of Muslims 1917

The Taliban in Swat Valley

"An educated female population is more threatening to them than armies equipped with all-seeing drones. Every girl who crams for a high-school exam, every woman who runs a hospital, and every semi-educated mother who makes sure her daughter gets a better education than she herself received, is a mortal threat to the Taliban's declared ambition that every little girl who talks about school gets it in the head."

-Mohammad Hanif

2,000 People Dead

400 Schools Destroyed

"More than 40 video and music stores had been forced to close or sell only religious-themed movies when the Taliban was in control. Now, the American “Fast & Furious” movie series starring Vin Diesel is the top-seller.” -Khan Muhammad (video store employee)

Westernization

Agricultural Frailty

Culture/Social Revolution

With or Without Women in Agriculture

The Green Revolution of 1963

"The threat of hunger in India and Pakistan, brought the Green Revolution to the subcontinent"

-Look Magazine, Library of Congress

72% of the women's workforce in Pakistan are associated with agriculture.(Women in Agriculture in Pakistan)

"A revolution is a change in society that overthrows the social order."

-Cynthia Compton

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