New York, 13 August 2024, The Head of UN Women’s Country Office in Afghanistan, briefs the reporters remotely from Kabul discussing the UN Women’s Afghanistan Gender Country Profile 2024.
The UN Women official said, “this year remarks 3 years the Taliban holds political control in Afghanistan, today, no woman in Afghanistan has a leadership position anywhere that has influence politically, either at national or provincial level. When women are engaged in the Taliban’s structures, their roles are largely to monitor compliance of other women with their discriminatory decrees. This political erasure is really mirrored at a social level.” Ms. Davidian elaborated that the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls will affect generations to come. The Gender Country Profile shows by 2026 it will lead the impact 1.1 million girls out of school and 100,000 women out of university which correlates the increase in early childbearing by 45 percent and an increase in maternal mortality by up to 50 percent. Currently, the world is watching what happens to Afghan women and girls. In some cases, it watches to condemn, but at the opposite it watches the emulate of the Taliban systematic oppression.
Ms. Davidian emphasizes that we cannot leave Afghan women to fight alone. Once we do, it translates to have no moral ground to fight for women’s rights anywhere else. Their fate determines the fate of women everywhere.
The Afghanistan Gender Country Profile 2024, produced with the financial support of the European Union (EU), provides a snapshot of the current situation regarding gender equality in Afghanistan, noting the previous legal and institutional frameworks (from the period 1978–2021), and examining the current decrees, policies, and practices shaping the gender equality landscape under Taliban rule. https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-li…
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2024 Gender Report + UN Women’ Head in Afghanistan | United Nations
