The decrees of Talibans with regard to the women result pratiquement to exclude them public sphère, forbidding some for them in principle, in the cities, to work outside their residence, what has unemployed placement of the tens of thousands of employees, representatives of liberal professions and the collaboratrices of the O.I., what has more difficult return the conditions existence.

Even in 1996, before the arrival of Talibans to Kabul, the administration of the state counted 60% of the women, occupying most of the time of subordinate employments. But the current harshness touch just as well the men as the women, since this are the husbands that are punish of a fine, of beating or of prison in cases offence, what shows as the system insist on the masculine responsibility in the check of the feminine behavior. The principle of the total separation of the sexes is themselves spread in a first time equally to the hospital cares with a medical system totally partitioned. The corporation completely undergoes the effects of a system that, all while bringing a security of lives and goods, impose by the force an utopie moral without to bring solution to the owed general l'appauvrissement to the destructions and to the under-development.

The Taliban order, anchored in a very narrow interpretation of the religious law of the chariat, claims itself of a global and systematic project touching the body of the corporation. Talibans deny that the taxed measures be against the women and the deprive of their rights. They assert to the opposite to reestablish these last by a strict application of the chariat and reestablish the just report between the men and the women. Its promoters assert to work in favor of the honor of women, of their rights and of their dignity.

Which are these rights? Which are the foundations of the feminine condition according to Mullah Omar, the commander of the believing Islamic l'Émirat of afghanistan? His doctrine implies first of all a certain conception of the feminine nature that be founded the differentiation of tasks and responsibilities. According to Mullah Omar: "Omnipotent God has conceived the man and the woman différemment so that they fill with distinct functions on this earth. A proverb says that the domestic work is the have just had to try the women while the exterior world belongs to the warriors".

Pronounced speech at the time of the symposium "armed Men, women hardened", Genève, Institute Universitaire of Studies Development, 23-24 January 2001