The Taliban war against Afghan women

 The Mighty:

Long before the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, it was a well-known fact that a return to Taliban rule would be a disaster for the women of Afghanistan. After the U.S. invasion in 2001, Afghan women enjoyed freedom and civil rights that were unprecedented in most of their lifetimes.

For most of the 20th century, in fact, women’s rights in Afghanistan had been on an upward trend, coming to a nadir during Afghanistan’s Communist era under Soviet domination. It was only when the Afghan mujahideen came to power that women’s rights began to drastically reverse. The rule of the Taliban, with an Islamic tradition akin to Saudi Arabia’s, meant the harsh repression of all their rights. As the American withdrawal approached, Afghans began to suffer mental health crises.

Women are killing themselves at a high rate. Afghanistan is one of very few countries where women commit suicide at higher rates than men, but the Taliban won’t allow health workers to share data about it. What healthcare agencies do know is that the figures are alarming between August 2021 and August 2022.

The last year real data on women’s health was 2019, when the World Health Organization saw two-thirds of Afghanistan’s suicides were women. Since suicide is considered shameful by Afghan culture, the real numbers may be even higher.

“Most of the suicides are in places such as Takhar, Kunduz, Bamyan, Badghis, Faryab, Mazar-i-Sharif, and other rural areas,” said Maryam Marof Arwin, who heads Afghanistan Women and Children Strengthen Welfare Organisation. “The Taliban tries to suppress reports of suicides. Most of the time it doesn’t allow the media to publish these reports. But we are seeing an increase in the number of suicides, and we are worried about the situation of women, especially girls.”

After the Taliban takeover of the Afghan government, it reneged on a promise to gender segregate university classrooms and allow women to continue their education. Only males were permitted to attend classes. Young girls are now restricted to an education that stops at grade six.
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This is one of the disastrous bi-products of Biden's Afghan bugout. The discrimination against women driving many of them to kill themselves.