Afghan women and girls are facing the most severe women’s rights crisis in the world.
Four years since the Taliban takeover, waves of restrictions have stripped them of their rights and dignity, and not one has been reversed.
UN Women is on the ground supporting Afghan women to meet urgent needs and to protect their rights. But we cannot do it without you. Donate now to stand with women and girls in Afghanistan.
A daily reality of erased rights
Girls are banned from school after about age 13. Women are barred from most jobs, excluded from political life, and in many areas, forbidden from walking alone in public. Many cannot make decisions within their own households.
Bans on women studying medicine, restrictions on female patients seeing male doctors, and cuts to foreign aid mean countless women are denied life-saving medical care. Maternal deaths are rising, child marriage is increasing, and violence against women is growing unchecked.
Yet just decades ago, Afghanistan was a leader in women’s rights: women gained the right to vote in 1919, the first girls’ school opened in 1921, and the 1964 constitution enshrined equality for all. That progress must only move forward, never backward.
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