Through chadari

(ES)

The chadari is the traditional dress of women Pashtuns in Afghanistan.

The meshing of chadari has two sides and a single fabric.

On one face, to the outside, from the West a woman is oppressed under the weight of a dress, subdued, devoid of freedom and gender-based discriminated.

The other side, interior, see a woman using the chadari to protect itself. Women who have dignity and pride, in obedience to Almighty God and ensuring that they and their families will be protected against the rapist and all forms of evil that are present in Western societies.

The debate about its use is controversial and still open in the West. EU countries legislate for a ban in public places. Case in Syrian and Egyptian universities, where its use is also prohibited.

Without entering this controversy, I think more interesting to talk about chadari fabric. What threads are the fabric that is woven chadari?

Extrapolating this question to Afghan social fabric we can get some revealing data.

According WFWI (Women for Women International), with presence in Afghanistan since 2002, these are some country facts:

• In a 2008 survey of 4,700 Afghan women, 87.2% had experienced at least one form of physical, sexual or psychological or forced marriage in his life.

• 85.1% of women without formal education.

• 74% of girls drop out of school by 5th grade.

• Only 1% of girls in rural communities go to school.

• Nearly 79% of women are illiterate.

• On average, Afghan women give birth to seven children.

• One of every 62 women dies during childbirth, and in some regions the number is as high as 1 in 8.

In the Afghan parliamentary elections in September 2010, increased from 328 women candidates in 2005, to 406 will be distributed 68 seats reserved for women in the House of Peoples, with a total of 249 seats. While in the House of Elders, the Afghan Constitution guarantees women 17 seats in the 102's in total.

This picture of Democracy is clouded by: first, the allegations of electoral fraud in the presidential elections, and second, the harassment suffered by the female candidates during elections.

Denounce the candidates during the campaign there have been such terrible events:

• Threatening anonymous telephone calls from both, the radical extremists, as members of the Conservative Party.

• Demolition of posters and billboards.

• Posters stained with red ink.

In the case of the candidate Najil Angira, women entrepreneurs aged 30, has received death threats from the Taliban for his speech against his former regime.

According to the petition Malalai Joya, MP in 2005:

"The attacks against women continue to increase, and these attacks are carried out by groups of influential people in his province and untouchable. Impunity remains the major problem. Sarah's case illustrates very well the status of women in Afghanistan: this girl was raped by three men in the province of Samangan. They were charged but released aftr that by Karzai on behalf of Islamic forgiveness. My people never committed such acts in the name of Islam. Fundamentalists in power who use religion to assert their power and justify their cruelty "

"Education of women is the key to their emancipation,"

The candidate for parliament in 2010 Farkhunda Zahra Naderi, on her website chadari | The Window of Power, states:

"Let's turn our weakness into our strength! I believe that we can do it and if you also believe in it , then don't hesitate to join this fight! Because It is just for the Women's Rights!"

Brave women of Afghanistan, the chadari does not prevent that you see beyond what others can see.

All our support.