Afghanistan is under threat with rights just rehtoric.
Amid the Afghanistan crisis, women are feared for lives and rights. These fears are rooted in the country’s dark history of the Taliban rule, between 1996 and 2001, when systemic violations of women and girls were institutionalized.
The regime imposed Sharia and interpreted the Islamic law ruthlessly, prohibiting women from working and girls from attending school, and allowing women in public places only if they covered their faces and were escorted by male relatives.
As the Taliban returns, so do memories of the horrors of its brutal rule. Nearly a quarter of a million Afghans were forced to flee since the end of May, 80% of them women and children, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
More Afghan women and children were killed in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since records were kept in 2009.
The last two decades saw millions of Afghan girls attending school and Afghan women engaging in public life — for instance, the female literacy rate shot up from less than 17% in 2000 to 30% in 2018, as per the World Bank.
Though the Taliban chief already said that there will be no discrimination against women and they will be allowed to work, but these all seem to be as rhetoric to the nation.
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