Latest items for Afghanistan
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1
"Last month, a report by the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan assessed the dire situation facing girls and women in Afghanistan. 'Many [girls now denied a secondary education] are driven to psychological distress, including suicidal thoughts and actions'" (para 23).
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1
"Last month, a report by the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan assessed the dire situation facing girls and women in Afghanistan. 'Many [girls now denied a secondary education] are driven to psychological distress, including suicidal thoughts and actions'" (para 23).
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"What has happened to them since has been catastrophic: forced and early marriage, domestic violence, suicide, drug addiction and an eradication from all aspects of public life, with no end in sight" (para 5). "Another survey from the Afghan digital platform Bishnaw found that 8% of those who took part knew at least one woman or girl who had attempted to kill themselves since August 2021" (para 17). "Last month, a report by the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan assessed the dire situation facing girls and women in Afghanistan. 'Many [girls now denied a secondary education] are driven to psychological distress, including suicidal thoughts and actions'" (para 23).more
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"What has happened to them since has been catastrophic: forced and early marriage, domestic violence, suicide, drug addiction and an eradication from all aspects of public life, with no end in sight" (para 5). "Another survey from the Afghan digital platform Bishnaw found that 8% of those who took part knew at least one woman or girl who had attempted to kill themselves since August 2021" (para 17). "Last month, a report by the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan assessed the dire situation facing girls and women in Afghanistan. 'Many [girls now denied a secondary education] are driven to psychological distress, including suicidal thoughts and actions'" (para 23).more
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1
"Marzia*, the mother of 15-year-old Arzo*, says her daughter has become increasingly withdrawn and depressed since she has been unable to go back to school. 'She talks less and sleeps most of the time,' she says. 'I know the reason is the school closure, but there’s nothing we can do,' she says. 'I always dreamed that my daughter would study and become a doctor so she could stand on her own feet.' Barr says the Taliban have taken away 'girl’s social networks, their friends, the outside world'. 'They can’t go to school, or to national parks, or beauty salons or the gym or, increasingly, outside the house at all without...more
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1
"Marzia*, the mother of 15-year-old Arzo*, says her daughter has become increasingly withdrawn and depressed since she has been unable to go back to school. 'She talks less and sleeps most of the time,' she says. 'I know the reason is the school closure, but there’s nothing we can do,' she says. 'I always dreamed that my daughter would study and become a doctor so she could stand on her own feet.' Barr says the Taliban have taken away 'girl’s social networks, their friends, the outside world'. 'They can’t go to school, or to national parks, or beauty salons or the gym or, increasingly, outside the house at all without...more
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MISA-DATA-1
"A United Nations survey last December found that 76% of women and girls who responded classed their mental health as 'bad' or 'very bad', reporting insomnia, depression, anxiety, loss of appetite and headaches as a result of their trauma. Almost one-fifth of girls and women also said they hadn’t met another woman outside their immediate family in the three preceding months. Another survey from the Afghan digital platform Bishnaw found that 8% of those who took part knew at least one woman or girl who had attempted to kill themselves since August 2021" (para 16-17).
Variables: MISA-DATA-1
"A United Nations survey last December found that 76% of women and girls who responded classed their mental health as 'bad' or 'very bad', reporting insomnia, depression, anxiety, loss of appetite and headaches as a result of their trauma. Almost one-fifth of girls and women also said they hadn’t met another woman outside their immediate family in the three preceding months. Another survey from the Afghan digital platform Bishnaw found that 8% of those who took part knew at least one woman or girl who had attempted to kill themselves since August 2021" (para 16-17).
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"What has happened to them since has been catastrophic: forced and early marriage, domestic violence, suicide, drug addiction and an eradication from all aspects of public life, with no end in sight" (para 5). "Without being able to go to school, Asma’s fate has been predictable. She has been forced into an early marriage to a man she didn’t know, exchanging the four walls of her father’s house for those of her new husband’s family. She says she begged her parents not to force her into marriage. 'When I told them about my studies and dreams, they laughed and said: ‘Since the Taliban has come, girls will never be allowed...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"What has happened to them since has been catastrophic: forced and early marriage, domestic violence, suicide, drug addiction and an eradication from all aspects of public life, with no end in sight" (para 5). "Without being able to go to school, Asma’s fate has been predictable. She has been forced into an early marriage to a man she didn’t know, exchanging the four walls of her father’s house for those of her new husband’s family. She says she begged her parents not to force her into marriage. 'When I told them about my studies and dreams, they laughed and said: ‘Since the Taliban has come, girls will never be allowed...more
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ATDW-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-1
"Benafasha* was 13 years old when the Taliban took power and her family decided that if she couldn’t go to school she had to get married. Her sister Qudsia* says that Benafasha was sent to live with her fiance who was instantly violent, brutally beating and abusing the now 16-year-old. Qudsia says that Benafasha, desperate and afraid, went to the Taliban courts to ask to be allowed to separate. Instead, they sent her to prison. 'We had pictures demonstrating how he had beaten my sister, and text messages and voice recordings showing how he would insult and beat her,' says Qudsia. 'The judge took her husband’s side, saying women are...more
Variables: ATDW-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-1
"Benafasha* was 13 years old when the Taliban took power and her family decided that if she couldn’t go to school she had to get married. Her sister Qudsia* says that Benafasha was sent to live with her fiance who was instantly violent, brutally beating and abusing the now 16-year-old. Qudsia says that Benafasha, desperate and afraid, went to the Taliban courts to ask to be allowed to separate. Instead, they sent her to prison. 'We had pictures demonstrating how he had beaten my sister, and text messages and voice recordings showing how he would insult and beat her,' says Qudsia. 'The judge took her husband’s side, saying women are...more
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-LAW-1, AFE-DATA-1
"It is now past 1,000 days since the Taliban declared schools only for boys, and an estimated 1.2 million teenage girls such as Asma were in effect banned from secondary schools in Afghanistan" (para 4).
Variables: AFE-LAW-1, AFE-DATA-1
"It is now past 1,000 days since the Taliban declared schools only for boys, and an estimated 1.2 million teenage girls such as Asma were in effect banned from secondary schools in Afghanistan" (para 4).
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1
"In May 2021, a few months before Taliban militants swept to power, Asma was in class when bombs began exploding outside her secondary school. She woke up in hospital to learn that 85 people, mostly other schoolgirls, had been killed. By the time she had started to recover, the Taliban were in charge and her chances of returning to school were over for good" (para 3).
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1
"In May 2021, a few months before Taliban militants swept to power, Asma was in class when bombs began exploding outside her secondary school. She woke up in hospital to learn that 85 people, mostly other schoolgirls, had been killed. By the time she had started to recover, the Taliban were in charge and her chances of returning to school were over for good" (para 3).
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AOM-PRACTICE-1
"What has happened to them since has been catastrophic: forced and early marriage, domestic violence, suicide, drug addiction and an eradication from all aspects of public life, with no end in sight" (para 5). "With diminishing status in society and no protection from the authorities, teenage girls, especially those forced into early marriage, are facing domestic violence inside the home and violence from the authorities outside, say human rights groups" (para 10). "Benafasha* was 13 years old when the Taliban took power and her family decided that if she couldn’t go to school she had to get married. Her sister Qudsia* says that Benafasha was sent to live with her...more
Variables: AOM-PRACTICE-1
"What has happened to them since has been catastrophic: forced and early marriage, domestic violence, suicide, drug addiction and an eradication from all aspects of public life, with no end in sight" (para 5). "With diminishing status in society and no protection from the authorities, teenage girls, especially those forced into early marriage, are facing domestic violence inside the home and violence from the authorities outside, say human rights groups" (para 10). "Benafasha* was 13 years old when the Taliban took power and her family decided that if she couldn’t go to school she had to get married. Her sister Qudsia* says that Benafasha was sent to live with her...more
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-DATA-1
"With diminishing status in society and no protection from the authorities, teenage girls, especially those forced into early marriage, are facing domestic violence inside the home and violence from the authorities outside, say human rights groups" (para 10). "Benafasha* was 13 years old when the Taliban took power and her family decided that if she couldn’t go to school she had to get married. Her sister Qudsia* says that Benafasha was sent to live with her fiance who was instantly violent, brutally beating and abusing the now 16-year-old. Qudsia says that Benafasha, desperate and afraid, went to the Taliban courts to ask to be allowed to separate. Instead, they sent...more
Variables: DV-DATA-1
"With diminishing status in society and no protection from the authorities, teenage girls, especially those forced into early marriage, are facing domestic violence inside the home and violence from the authorities outside, say human rights groups" (para 10). "Benafasha* was 13 years old when the Taliban took power and her family decided that if she couldn’t go to school she had to get married. Her sister Qudsia* says that Benafasha was sent to live with her fiance who was instantly violent, brutally beating and abusing the now 16-year-old. Qudsia says that Benafasha, desperate and afraid, went to the Taliban courts to ask to be allowed to separate. Instead, they sent...more
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-LAW-1
"Almost one-fifth of girls and women also said they hadn’t met another woman outside their immediate family in the three preceding months" (para 17). "Barr says the Taliban have taken away 'girl’s social networks, their friends, the outside world'. 'They can’t go to school, or to national parks, or beauty salons or the gym or, increasingly, outside the house at all without fear of intimidation. They’re taking away everything that makes them human,' she says" (para 20).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-LAW-1
"Almost one-fifth of girls and women also said they hadn’t met another woman outside their immediate family in the three preceding months" (para 17). "Barr says the Taliban have taken away 'girl’s social networks, their friends, the outside world'. 'They can’t go to school, or to national parks, or beauty salons or the gym or, increasingly, outside the house at all without fear of intimidation. They’re taking away everything that makes them human,' she says" (para 20).
April 17, 2025, 6:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-LAW-2
"What has happened to them since has been catastrophic: forced and early marriage, domestic violence, suicide, drug addiction and an eradication from all aspects of public life, with no end in sight" (para 5).
Variables: IIP-LAW-2
"What has happened to them since has been catastrophic: forced and early marriage, domestic violence, suicide, drug addiction and an eradication from all aspects of public life, with no end in sight" (para 5).
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1, DTCP-LAW-1
"They have prevented girls from going to secondary school, barred women from nearly all forms of paid employment, from accessing the justice system or walking in public parks" (para 5).
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1, DTCP-LAW-1
"They have prevented girls from going to secondary school, barred women from nearly all forms of paid employment, from accessing the justice system or walking in public parks" (para 5).
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1
"At the end of 2023, a campaign for gender apartheid in Afghanistan to be recognised and codified by the UN as a crime against humanity was launched, part of a desperate attempt by Afghan women living outside the country to get the international community to stop the new regime’s assault on women and girls" (para 3). "Yet as the voices of women and girls inside Afghanistan have been largely silenced, female activists living in exile, who have been calling for action to end the impunity of the Taliban regime, say they have found themselves increasingly dismissed in international policymaking and diplomatic circles as not accurately representing the reality of life...more
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1
"At the end of 2023, a campaign for gender apartheid in Afghanistan to be recognised and codified by the UN as a crime against humanity was launched, part of a desperate attempt by Afghan women living outside the country to get the international community to stop the new regime’s assault on women and girls" (para 3). "Yet as the voices of women and girls inside Afghanistan have been largely silenced, female activists living in exile, who have been calling for action to end the impunity of the Taliban regime, say they have found themselves increasingly dismissed in international policymaking and diplomatic circles as not accurately representing the reality of life...more
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1, RCDW-LAW-2
"They have stipulated that women must be completely covered at all times outside the house and that their voices must not be heard in public" (para 6).
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1, RCDW-LAW-2
"They have stipulated that women must be completely covered at all times outside the house and that their voices must not be heard in public" (para 6).
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Safi’s Bishnaw project, a digital platform that gathers data from thousands of Afghan women from across the country through telephone surveys and face-to-face interviews, joins other initiatives launched by Afghans living in exile, who are trying to provide key evidence to support their attempts to get the Taliban’s policies recognised as crimes against humanity" (para 11).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Safi’s Bishnaw project, a digital platform that gathers data from thousands of Afghan women from across the country through telephone surveys and face-to-face interviews, joins other initiatives launched by Afghans living in exile, who are trying to provide key evidence to support their attempts to get the Taliban’s policies recognised as crimes against humanity" (para 11).
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-LAW-1
"They have prevented girls from going to secondary school, barred women from nearly all forms of paid employment, from accessing the justice system or walking in public parks. They have stipulated that women must be completely covered at all times outside the house and that their voices must not be heard in public" (para 5-6).
Variables: IIP-LAW-1
"They have prevented girls from going to secondary school, barred women from nearly all forms of paid employment, from accessing the justice system or walking in public parks. They have stipulated that women must be completely covered at all times outside the house and that their voices must not be heard in public" (para 5-6).
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: GP-DATA-4
"'When the first Taliban regime fell, the idea that we would once again see the persecution, isolation and segregational and systematic repression of half the Afghan population on the basis of their gender seemed impossible,' says Samar, who served as the minister for women’s affairs after the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 and now lives in exile" (para 2).
Variables: GP-DATA-4
"'When the first Taliban regime fell, the idea that we would once again see the persecution, isolation and segregational and systematic repression of half the Afghan population on the basis of their gender seemed impossible,' says Samar, who served as the minister for women’s affairs after the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 and now lives in exile" (para 2).
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DSFMF-PRACTICE-3, DSFMF-LAW-1
"Women can now be stoned to death for crimes such as adultery" (para 6).
Variables: DSFMF-PRACTICE-3, DSFMF-LAW-1
"Women can now be stoned to death for crimes such as adultery" (para 6).
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AOM-DATA-2
"69% of women said they knew a girl who had been married at 'an inappropriate age' since the Taliban took power" (para 15).
Variables: AOM-DATA-2
"69% of women said they knew a girl who had been married at 'an inappropriate age' since the Taliban took power" (para 15).
April 4, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"Since they took power in August 2021, the Taliban have issued more than 80 edicts restricting the lives of women and girls. They have prevented girls from going to secondary school" (para 5).
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"Since they took power in August 2021, the Taliban have issued more than 80 edicts restricting the lives of women and girls. They have prevented girls from going to secondary school" (para 5).
March 21, 2025, 10:13 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-LAW-1
"A deluge of regime diktats has barred women from leaving home without a male relative, working, going to school or training as doctors and nurses. Women have even been banned from raising their voices in public and speaking loudly inside their homes" (para 8-9).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-LAW-1
"A deluge of regime diktats has barred women from leaving home without a male relative, working, going to school or training as doctors and nurses. Women have even been banned from raising their voices in public and speaking loudly inside their homes" (para 8-9).
March 21, 2025, 10:13 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"Afghan girls are going without vital surgical procedures because of discriminatory restrictions put in place by the Taliban, new medical data and first-hand accounts from the country suggest. Instead they are being forced to rely on faith healers and traditional medicine – even in cases of serious and life-threatening injury and illness. Despite a fifty-fifty gender split among children, over 80 per cent of all surgical procedures carried out at a charity-run paediatric unit in Kabul were performed on boys, according to a survey of its first 1,000 operations" (para 1-3). "Of 1,014 patients under the age of 14, 80.5 per cent were male. The proportion of boys being given...more
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"Afghan girls are going without vital surgical procedures because of discriminatory restrictions put in place by the Taliban, new medical data and first-hand accounts from the country suggest. Instead they are being forced to rely on faith healers and traditional medicine – even in cases of serious and life-threatening injury and illness. Despite a fifty-fifty gender split among children, over 80 per cent of all surgical procedures carried out at a charity-run paediatric unit in Kabul were performed on boys, according to a survey of its first 1,000 operations" (para 1-3). "Of 1,014 patients under the age of 14, 80.5 per cent were male. The proportion of boys being given...more
March 21, 2025, 10:13 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-LAW-1
"Taliban officials insist there are no official policies that explicitly prohibit women from being given medical treatment" (para 13).
Variables: DACH-LAW-1
"Taliban officials insist there are no official policies that explicitly prohibit women from being given medical treatment" (para 13).
March 21, 2025, 10:13 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1, AFE-LAW-1, ASR-LAW-1
"A deluge of regime diktats has barred women from leaving home without a male relative, working, going to school or training as doctors and nurses" (para 8).
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1, AFE-LAW-1, ASR-LAW-1
"A deluge of regime diktats has barred women from leaving home without a male relative, working, going to school or training as doctors and nurses" (para 8).
March 21, 2025, 10:13 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ASR-DATA-1
"Fada Mohammad Peykan, a former deputy health minister, said: 'A massive brain drain is underway, and the number of female doctors is falling rapidly. Outside major cities, most surgeons are men, and under Taliban rules, they cannot treat female patients. The situation is critical. No new female doctors are being trained' (para 37-38).
Variables: ASR-DATA-1
"Fada Mohammad Peykan, a former deputy health minister, said: 'A massive brain drain is underway, and the number of female doctors is falling rapidly. Outside major cities, most surgeons are men, and under Taliban rules, they cannot treat female patients. The situation is critical. No new female doctors are being trained' (para 37-38).
March 20, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8
"Studies have put Pakistan as having one of the highest rates [of consanguineous unions] globally at 65 per cent. This is followed by India (55 per cent), Saudi Arabia (50 per cent), Afghanistan (40 per cent), Iran (30 per cent) and Egypt and Turkey (20 per cent each)" (para 23-24).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8
"Studies have put Pakistan as having one of the highest rates [of consanguineous unions] globally at 65 per cent. This is followed by India (55 per cent), Saudi Arabia (50 per cent), Afghanistan (40 per cent), Iran (30 per cent) and Egypt and Turkey (20 per cent each)" (para 23-24).
Feb. 27, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"The woman then allegedly spent three days and nights in a Taliban prison, where she was forced to cook, clean and do laundry for the men employed there at first before officials told her that she would be fingerprinted and have her biometric details recorded. Her resistance resulted in a brutal beating, leaving her unconscious. The 32-year-old claims that she was then raped. The woman said she thought about suicide following her release, but worries about who would feed her children have stopped her" (para 10-12).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"The woman then allegedly spent three days and nights in a Taliban prison, where she was forced to cook, clean and do laundry for the men employed there at first before officials told her that she would be fingerprinted and have her biometric details recorded. Her resistance resulted in a brutal beating, leaving her unconscious. The 32-year-old claims that she was then raped. The woman said she thought about suicide following her release, but worries about who would feed her children have stopped her" (para 10-12).
Feb. 27, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Women arrested by the Taliban have said that they are being subjected to 'brutal' rapes and beatings in Afghan prisoners. They said they were arrested for begging by Taliban officials enforcing draconian new anti-begging laws before being sexually abused, tortured and forced to work in prison. Children were allegedly also detained, abused and some were even beaten to death" (para 1-2). "The woman then allegedly spent three days and nights in a Taliban prison, where she was forced to cook, clean and do laundry for the men employed there at first before officials told her that she would be fingerprinted and have her biometric details recorded. Her resistance resulted in...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Women arrested by the Taliban have said that they are being subjected to 'brutal' rapes and beatings in Afghan prisoners. They said they were arrested for begging by Taliban officials enforcing draconian new anti-begging laws before being sexually abused, tortured and forced to work in prison. Children were allegedly also detained, abused and some were even beaten to death" (para 1-2). "The woman then allegedly spent three days and nights in a Taliban prison, where she was forced to cook, clean and do laundry for the men employed there at first before officials told her that she would be fingerprinted and have her biometric details recorded. Her resistance resulted in...more
Feb. 27, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1
"The women explained that they had to beg for money and food for their children as they were unable to find paid work after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021 and barred women from working. Earlier his year the Taliban passed a new law prohibiting 'healthy people' who have enough money for one day's food from begging on the streets. The Taliban said they have 'rounded up' nearly 60,000 beggars just in Kabul" (para 3-5).
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1
"The women explained that they had to beg for money and food for their children as they were unable to find paid work after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021 and barred women from working. Earlier his year the Taliban passed a new law prohibiting 'healthy people' who have enough money for one day's food from begging on the streets. The Taliban said they have 'rounded up' nearly 60,000 beggars just in Kabul" (para 3-5).