Unit XIII.

Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues

Task 1:

Read the text and look up the unknown words and phrases in the dictionary

Systematic Violations of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

Women in Afghanistan have suffered a catastrophic assault on their human rights during more than twenty years of war and under the repressive rule of the Taliban. Now, as women face further peril with the intensification of conflict following the September 11 attacks on the United States, the international community must take a firm commitment to support women’s human rights.

Throughout Afghanistan’s civil war, the major armed factions – primarily the Taliban and the United National Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, a coalition of mainly Tajik, Uzbek, and ethnic Hazara parties – have repeatedly committed serious abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law. Women have borne the major part of this violence and discrimination. In the civil war, women have suffered massive and systematic human rights abuses.

Task2:

Give English equivalents of the following words and phrases

Опасность/риск; наступление; жестокое обращение; взять на себя обязательство/пообещать; международное сообщество; группировка; столкнуться с чем-либо; насилие; совершать

Task 3:

Read the article and answer the questions

1) What have women suffered in Afghanistan for more than 20 years?

2) What are the Afghan women facing now and why?

3) What commitments should the international community make? Why?

4) What abuses did the women suffer during the war?

5) Why do you think women have borne the major part of violence and discrimination?

Task 4:

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