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Three years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan has led to the “striking” erasure of women from public life, which is also reflected at the community and household levels, a senior official with the...
By 2021, Afghan women had secured 69 out of 249 seats in parliament, women were negotiating peace across the country, and laws were in place allowing women to include their names on their children’s birth certificates and identification cards.
Three years after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, more women than ever are fleeing the country – but not without taking great risks.
Today, we are hearing from women living across Afghanistan, as they share with us how their lives have changed since the Taliban took over as the de facto government.
Today, Afghanistan is the most restrictive country in the world for women, and the only one that bans high school education for girls, experts say. Girls playing on a hillside overlooking Kabul...
Amnesty International conducted research on the situation of women and girls under Taliban rule from September 2021 to June 2022, interviewing a total of 90 Afghan women and 11 girls. The ages of these women and girls ranged from 14 to 74 years old, and they lived in 20 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.
Afghan women earned the right to vote more than a century ago. Today, under Taliban rule, they are practically erased from public life and even banned from singing.
In focus: Women in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban takeover. One year ago, on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul and took control of the country. Over the past 12 months, human rights violations against women and girls have mounted steadily.
The Taliban overtook Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in August 2021, and quickly began eroding women’s rights, including strict dress codes, banning higher education for girls, excluding...
Women’s rights in Afghanistan have always been a matter of fierce struggle over regimes and generations, but the oppression that Afghan women and girls are experiencing since August 2021 is unmatched in terms of scale and generational impact.