Thousand Splendid Suns Background: Focus on Women in Afghanistan

Getting started:

• Instructions and Ms. McAuley's Really Basic Timeline of Afghan History 1919-Present

• Fill in your researched information here (Google Doc)

All Time Periods:

• All Time Periods (Amnesty International)

• All Time Periods (Ohio State)

• All Time Periods after 1960 (PBS): Political life

• All Time Periods After 1940 (PBS): Economic life

• All Time Periods (Star Educational Society, Kabul, Afghanistan): Afghan women who changed history

Resources Listed by Time Period:

• 1919-2006 (PBS): Education

• 1996-2001, 2001-2011 (PBS): Women during Taliban rule and after, published 2007

• 2004-2007 (PBS): Political life, Women in Afghanistan's National Assembly

• 2000-2011 and 2012-Present (UN): Lack of progress on law against violence (PDF)

• 2000-2011, 2012-Present (HRW): Lack of progress on 2009 violence law

• 2000-2011, 2012-Present (UN): Lack of progress on 2009 violence law (PDF)

• 2000s (Human Rights Watch)

• 2001-Present (Council on Foreign Relations): both progress and dangers (PDF)

• During Taliban rule and Present (Guardian newspaper)

• 2011 (Central Statistics Organization and Ministry of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan) (PDF)

• 2012-Present (TIME Magazine)

• 2012-Present (BBC): Female suicide

• 2012-Present (Human Rights Watch): Education

• 2012-Present (Gallup): Survey of how Afghans see their lives and future

• 2012-Present (Al Jazeera): Violence and conflict

• 2012-Present (World Health Organization): Depression

• 2012-Present (UN): Gender-based violence, published 2016

• 2012-Present (Asia Foundation): download the PDF, see section 8 about women

• 2012-Present (World Bank): Data on economics, education, politics, health of women

• 2012-Present (Telegraph, British newspaper): An opinion piece about improvements in women's situation

• 2012-Present (USIP): A women's rights activist interviewed about ways to improve women's situation

• 2012-Present (Georgetown): Positive progress made, according to Afghani female leaders

• 2012-Present (Georgetown): Female police officers

• Afghan women's activism on Twitter

• 2012-Present (Malala Fund): Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai's work on girls' education

• 2014 (BBC)

• 2012-Present (Encyclopedia Britannica): Social Life