{"id":12923,"date":"2025-08-13T00:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12923"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:27:40","slug":"un-taliban-policies-have-pushed-afghan-women-to-premature-death-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/un-taliban-policies-have-pushed-afghan-women-to-premature-death-and-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Taliban policies have pushed Afghan women to premature death and poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12919\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/un-zan-talibbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>UN: Taliban policies have pushed Afghan women to premature death and poverty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Four years after the Taliban took power, the UN has warned that Afghan women are facing a decline in life expectancy, widespread deprivation from education and work, and an unprecedented health crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the report, the Taliban have issued nearly 100 anti-women decrees that have had \u201cdevastating\u201d consequences for the lives of women and girls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>More than 78 percent of Afghan women are now neither employed nor in education, and obtaining a degree has become virtually impossible for them. This deprivation has removed half of the potential workforce from Afghanistan\u2019s devastated economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The UN also predicts that maternal mortality will increase by 50 percent by 2026, as the Taliban deny women access to health services and medical education.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The report also reveals a rise in child marriage and domestic violence, and says that some Taliban officials are personally involved in forced marriages. 62% of women do not have a role in decision-making, even at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The head of the UN Women office in Afghanistan emphasizes that the systematic suppression of women is an issue beyond the borders of Afghanistan; because the continuation of this trend sends a message to the world that the rights of women and girls can be violated and ignored anywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN: Taliban policies have pushed Afghan women to premature death and poverty. Four years after the Taliban took power, the UN has warned that Afghan women are facing a decline in life expectancy, widespread deprivation from education and work, and an unprecedented health crisis. According to the report, the Taliban have issued nearly 100 anti-women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923","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=12923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12924,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923\/revisions\/12924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}