UNHCR Afghanistan Women and Girls Factsheet - October 2024
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UNHCR Afghanistan Women and Girls Factsheet - October 2024
8 December 2024
Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the country’s 21.4 million women and girls have faced a systematic erosion of their fundamental human rights, including social, economic, and political. Edicts imposed by the de facto authorities (DfA) in 2022 and 2023 barred women from public office, employment with NGOs and UN Agencies, as well as education beyond the sixth grade, and have challenged humanitarian operations in Afghanistan.
