Afghanistan: Help women and girls in Afghanistan today
Five years after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the de facto authorities have issued more than 100 decrees affecting Afghan women and girls and stripping them of their rights, freedoms, and dignity.
No other country has dismantled the rights of half its population through law, policy, and practice to the same extent.
At the beginning of this year, the Taliban issued a decree effectively
legalising domestic violence by allowing husbands to punish their wives.
And in May, another decree removed minimum age protections for marriage and made it harder for women to leave a spouse. This has increased the risk of forced and child marriage.
This is not just a loss of rights. It is the systematic
erasure of women and girls from public life.
Five years on from the Taliban takeover and the
exclusion of women and girls is being normalised.
This unparalleled crisis of women’s and girls’ rights is at risk
of being forgotten by the world.
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See also 8th Sept. The Last Free Women: A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America. Blumenstein & Kapp. Hardcover, 368 pages. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN: 9781538779002
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