the U.N. and U.S. corporations. Companies are striking deals from oil pipe lines to crop subsidies and their interest are being protected by peoples in the U.N. and the U.S. government. Also, Afghanistan’s biggest cash crop, opium poppies are being used to fund their weapons purchases. Weapons that are used to kill their own countrymen and women. This site questions U.S. involvement with the Government that has no regard for the basic human rights especially one that treats women as second-class citizens.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/9791013/world.tyranny_of_the.htmlEmma Bonino the European Unions top humanitarian describes to us the horrors that Afghanis face everyday under the Taliban rule. Women have been especially mistreated in the guise of protecting them. No longer are women allowed to even leave their house without a male member of their family escorting them. The punishment for which is being imprisoned or even beaten. Women cannot work or go to school.Under the pretext of protecting them, women are always segregated. Which wouldn’t be a problem unless this excluded them from medical attention, as is the case. Due to the harsh conditions, including public beatings, imprisonment as well a general feeling of fear they must live in the Afghani women are amounting a heavy toll on their mental well being. There is an increase in the rate of suicide and depression among these women. As well as increased prostitution because they cannot find legal work and are single or widowed. For these women there in no escape from their tyrannized lives....
