Afghanistan women

Burqa Burqa Burqa is an outer garment that covers the whole body from the top of the head to the feet. The entire face is covered including the eyes with a mesh screen to see through. It is worn as a usual daily clothing by Muslim women in some Islamic cultures when going out in public and removed after returning home. It is the most concealing of all Muslim veils. Burqas are commonly associated with the Afghan chadris. They come in many different colors.

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Since May, over 250,000 people have been displaced from Afghanistan, and 80% of them are women and children.

Women in Kabul, Afghanistan: 1950's, 1972 and 2013. Powerful pictures.

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A woman who prefers not to be identified cloaks herself inside a burqua. Afghan women were forced to wear the burqa at all times in public, because, according to one Taliban spokesman, "the face of a woman is a source of corruption" for men not related to them. In a systematic segregation sometimes referred to as gender apartheid, women were not allowed to work, they were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were permitted only to study the Qur'an.

This is the latest in a string of alleged arrests of women that have sparked an outcry from rights groups.