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Whats the situation like for women in countries like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan?

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Whats the situation like for women in countries like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan?

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Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan are both backward in terms of women’s activism compared with Morocco, Jordan or Lebanon. The veil and gender segregation in both countries is compulsory by law and/or tradition. In Afghanistan, there is so much destruction of infrastructure, and it has the lowest education and literacy rates for women. There is also the rising power of the Taliban–with philosophies similar to those of the governments in Saudi Arabia and Iran. For women in Afghanistan, moving freely in the public space to go to work or go to the library or to school has become increasingly difficult. The vast majority are illiterate. Communication is weak. The roads are terrible. There is the problem of drugs and opium and the resurgence of Taliban. Afghan women’s eagerness to have communication through the Internet is interesting, for it is one way for them to escape segregated space. Saudi Arabia is also highly segregated, but in some ways even more backward than Afghanistan and Iran. Wom

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