{"id":11721,"date":"2025-05-05T00:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11721"},"modified":"2025-05-05T00:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:46:41","slug":"alarming-increase-in-suicides-among-afghan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/alarming-increase-in-suicides-among-afghan-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarming increase in suicides among Afghan women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11722\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/zanan0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alarming increase in suicides among Afghan women; \u201cSuicide is not the solution\u201d campaign launched<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Following the increase in suicides among Afghan women in recent weeks, including the suicide of a young Afghan girl in Pakistan and the self-immolation of Abida in Ghor province, a new campaign titled \u201cSuicide is not the solution\u201d has been launched.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mina Rafiq, an Afghan women\u2019s rights activist, released a video asking the people of Afghanistan and so-called \u201cfreedom seekers\u201d to join the campaign. She said in her message: \u201cJoin us in one voice; suicide is not the solution. We will fight against all injustice and gender discrimination and we will succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Referring to the difficult conditions of women in Afghanistan, Ms. Rafiq added: \u201cWomen live in a system of gender apartheid. Many of them become weak and cry; But the only solution is struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She emphasized that despite all the problems, Afghan women are not so helpless as to commit suicide due to the pressures of \u201cpatriarchy\u201d and \u201creligious peddling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The campaign comes as widespread restrictions on women in Afghanistan, following the Taliban\u2019s return to power, have fueled widespread concerns about women\u2019s mental health and social status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarming increase in suicides among Afghan women; \u201cSuicide is not the solution\u201d campaign launched Following the increase in suicides among Afghan women in recent weeks, including the suicide of a young Afghan girl in Pakistan and the self-immolation of Abida in Ghor province, a new campaign titled \u201cSuicide is not the solution\u201d has been launched. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11723,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions\/11723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}