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Taliban Restrictions on Women’s Rights Deepen Afghanistan’s Crisis
The Taliban have barred women from universities and many workplaces, compelling several aid organisations to pause operations in Afghanistan and donors to contemplate cuts to assistance.
Yet the principled response remains to mitigate the harm these harsh rulings are doing to the most vulnerable Afghans.
- ICG
What’s new?
The Taliban have ordered the most sweeping rollbacks of women’s rights since retaking power in 2021, part of a series of escalating moves to enforce the group’s heterodox conservatism.
Girls and women are losing access to education, employment and public spaces as well as other basic freedoms…