The Taliban has removed women from all but essential government jobs, ordered them to cover up in public, and barred teenage girls from going to school. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KABUL – Afghanistan under the Taliban government is the “most repressive country in the world” for women’s rights, with the authorities effectively trapping women and girls in their homes, the United Nations has said.
The UN mission said the crackdown was a “colossal act of national self-harm” at a time Afghanistan faces some of the world’s largest humanitarian and economic crises. Some women have staged sporadic protests against the bans – risking arrest, violence and social stigma for taking part – but the authorities usually disperse them swiftly.
More than half the country’s 38 million people are facing hunger and nearly four million children suffer from malnutrition, aid agencies say.
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