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Expand women's rights
Amir Amanullah Khan took power in Afghanistan trying to expand women's rights
- girls were able to attend school
- women were encouraged to wear a more western dress. The strict dress code was repressed -
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Women’s rights in Afghanistan
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School, hospital, magazine
- First girls school, woman’s hospital and a guidance magazine
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women are allowed to choose their own husbands
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Female politician
- Women are allowed into politics
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Banished burqas
Peoples democratic party of Afghanistan banished burqas
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Taliban striped women's rights
Taliban comes to power stripping women of all their rights.
- women must be fully veiled, educated only until 8 years old
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Taliban falls
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New rights of women and men
New constitution giving women and men new rights
-women are allowed to vote for the 1st election in october -
No personal freedom
- Women are not allowed to leave the house without permission from their husbands.
- Husbands can force their wives to have sex even if she says no.
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The most dangerous place to live as a woman
- Global survey named Afghanistan to be the worlds most dangerous place to live as a woman.
