Afghan women's rights activist protests Taliban child marriage: “They are dressing me as a bride…blindfolded my eyes and silenced my voice...”1 in 3 Afghan girls are married before 18, with documented cases involving girls as young as 9.

Islam in action: They discipline women like zoo trainers.Women and girls in Afghanistan are treated worse than animals, but no one in the international community cares.Under Taliban rule and strict Sharia law, Afghan females live as literal property. They cannot leave home without a male guardian, cannot show their faces or hair, cannot sing, dance, study, or even speak freely. If they break any of the oppressive “modesty” rules imposed by Muslim men, they are beaten, flogged, imprisoned, or kil