Afghanistan for Kids Photo gallery

The religious law dictated that women wear chaderis (pronounced shaw-dree) but the religious and the civil law were separate and so women could decide for themselves whether to wear the chaderi. Today the religious law and the civil law are the same and so all Afghan women must wear the chaderi. When we were there, nearly all the women in rural villages wore chaderis but in Kabul it was about half of the women. Girls under the age of twelve do not wear chaderis nor do women wear them when they are at home among their own families.