Women rights in Afghanistan has become a conflict since it got under Taliban regime. In the early history of Afghanistan, it was estimated that before Taliban Afghan women were involved in politics, work force, education and every area in the society. For example in 1880s, a woman named Malala played a major role in the battle of Maiwand, and she is still known as one of the best heroines of Afghan history (Qazi, 2009). In 1900s, Abdur Rahman Khan gave women the right to divorce and raised the age for marriage; Habibullah Khan let women to go to school, and the schools even included English curriculum; Amanullah Khan ended getting married to more than one woman, and he was also really against the veil (Qazi, 2009). Additionally, Amanullah Khan’s sisters were also involved in the politics too and they supported women rights so, they established an organization for women protection and they opened a hospital for specifically Afghan women (Qazi, 2009). A big change occured during Mohammad Zahir Shah’s time because he let women enter the workforce so now, Afghan women would be able to become teachers, nurses and even politicians (Qazi, 2009). After Afghan-Soviet war, the system in Afghanistan mainly started changing in a negative way because people of Afghanistan started limiting women rights specifically in Kabul (Qazi, 2009). After Soviet War in Afghanistan, Mujahideen government took over and they let Taliban have a voice in the government. In a short time, Taliban captured the entire Kabul city and they started applying Islamic Law through the country (Laub, 2013). Taliban was a Sunni Islamic group, but they were misinterpretating the religion extremely. They ruled the country between 1996 and 2001, and in such a short time they took away many rights from women (Sitez, 2012). For example Taliban did not let women go to school, enter the work force, be examined by male doctors, organize secret home school because otherwise they would be killed and more (Sitez, 2012). Also, young age marriage was really usual because the legal marriage age was 16, and if the girl’s father says okay, then it would be 15. Taliban also did not let young girls to run away if they are being violated by their husbands (Sitez, 2012). What Taliban did was not ethical because through the history of Afghanistan, women had never been treated like that. When Taliban stopped ruling the country in 2001, there were many protestings going on to protect women rights. Especially international activist groups such as Amnesty International took the lead (Sitez, 2012). Anthropologically, this was the development of Afghan women rights until 2001, but the problems showed up after Taliban was overthrown. Since Taliban changed the mindset of men, people started thinking that violence against women is normal and it is acceptable (Sitez, 2012). However, it has never been in that way. Violence rate extremely increased after Taliban was overthrown. Many international newspapers posted about the violence news in Afghanistan. For example BBC published an article about Sutara, whose nose was cut off by her husband just because she did not want to give her money to her husband (BBC, 2010). Her popularity can be understood easily because she was the cover page of Times Magazine when it happened. Now, Afghanistan is described as one of the worst places to be a woman because they are mostly being violated, but there are many organizations protecting women when it is compared to past.