Sunday, November 28, 2010

Research Question

Research Question:

How has the acceptance of the Taliban impacted the rights of Afghan women?


Information that I need to find out:

Rights of women before and after the Taliban.

Is there somewhere, in terms of religion, that says woman must cover everything but their eyes?

What impact if any has the UDHR had?

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Possible Exam Topics

I want to do something about women from Afghanistan or Pakistan and their human rights violations. I am interested in how the rights of women in Afghanistan or Pakistan are violated (and how they are against the universal declaration of human rights). I am interested in this topic because of the recent news events about the woman from Pakistan. Also when I was downtown I saw a women from the Middle East who had been abused (I think she was burned), so ever since then I have been interested in human rights.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world/asia/08burn.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=afghan%20burning&st=cse

Voices of women in Afghanistan unveiled

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/18/pakistan.blasphemy/index.html?hpt=C1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4074377.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/478900.stm

I don't really know where I want to take this topic, but I know I want to do something about their limited rights being violated. I may want to focus on one right in particular that is violated very often, or something like that. I also am interested in what the rest of the world is doing to help or prevent the human rights violations.