Human Rights Violation: Research Question

1. How has the Taliban diminished the role of women in Afghanistan?
             -politically (not being able to take public office, no right to vote, voice   
              political opinion, etc.)
             -economically (not being able to work, not making significant financial
              decisions).  
             -socially (education, attire, segregation of women and men in society).

It seems like education is the most important aspect regarding the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban.

2. How has the Taliban diminished education in the lives of Afghan women in Afghanistan?

2. I will have to learn exactly how and in which ways the Taliban has altered the education of women in Afghanistan. It will be helpful to also understand why the Taliban has chosen to particularly target the education of women. Why is education the main concern for the Taliban? The sources that I will have to should give insight into how women have been affected by their lack of education and how this has affected the Afghan society. Also, it will be important to use a source that looks at the Taliban's reasoning for curtailing the educational rights of Afghan women.
These are great sources that will help me answer my research question:
http://feminist.org/afghan/facts.html
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2007161,00.html http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-04/world/afghanistan.mutilated.girl.update_1_afghan-women-afghan-woman-taliban?_s=PM:WORLD
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Afghanistan-Under-Taliban/dp/0786410906
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/6185.htm.

Human Rights Violation

1. I am interested in researching about the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban in Afghanistan. I would like to research about this specific human rights violation because it is interesting to me to find out more about the Taliban has impeded the progress of Afghanistan by persecuting Afghan women. It is also interesting to understand how this human rights violation has allowed terrorism to prosper and continue there, as they are able to oppress women at every level possible.  
2. Sources that discuss past and current investigations (books and articles) of the treatment of Afghan women under the Taliban:
http://feminist.org/afghan/facts.html
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2007161,00.html http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-04/world/afghanistan.mutilated.girl.update_1_afghan-women-afghan-woman-taliban?_s=PM:WORLD
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Afghanistan-Under-Taliban/dp/0786410906
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/6185.htm.

These are just only a few!

3. Questions: What caused the Taliban to begin their oppression of Afghan?
                     In what ways did international support help stop this oppression?