Half of Afghan women interviewed leave home only once or twice a month because of the severe restrictions on their movement

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Five years after the Taliban takeover: the normalisation of the exclusion of women and girls in Afghanistan

Half a decade after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, Afghanistan has systematically dismantled the rights of half its population, making it a global outlier with no parallel in the modern world.

Over the past five years, the de facto authorities have issued more than 100 decrees targeting women and girls, institutionalising discrimination and stripping them of their fundamental rights – with profound consequences for their lives and for their communities, according to new UN Women data. In the past year alone, this exclusion of women and girls from education, employment, public life, justice systems, and healthcare has only intensified, entrenching what remains the world’s most severe women’s rights crisis.

This unparalleled crisis of women’s and girls’ rights is at risk of being forgotten by the world.

Full article at https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2026/08/five-years-after-the-taliban-takeover-the-normalization-of-the-exclusion-of-women-and-girls-in-afghanistan

The hellscapes of so many Islamic countries suggests otherwise

The’ve just had 20 years of that and as soon as the Americans left it became even worse.

Army disintegrated, police fled.

I think you are being a little bit naive here.

An Afghan taxi driver in Scotland has just been convicted of raping a young female passenger. He had been a translator for the British army, one of these so called heros we had to save by bringing them here.

Barabaric. Women were treated better in Greek and Roman times. Talk about going backwards.

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The Taliban are clearly such a powerful force I googled some numbers.

The US and British Army trained and armed 250-300,000 Afghan soldiers, some of them up to elite special forces level.

Taliban fighters were estimated to number from 60-100,000. So trained, armed professional Afghan army couldn't prevail over a rag tag guerrilla army only a third of the size?

Frankly the only Afghan refugees we should be welcoming here would be women, I have no time for all the young men who have run off and deserted their women, and have managed to commit so many rapes and sexual assaults on girls in this country. Sorry.

Slightly off topic and it may be terrible there is a tv series called Kabul starting on BBC4 tonight which is I think, meant to focus on the impact on families following the takeover by the Taliban.

But as it is make by some joint Euro production team not sure how authentic it will be.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmeqezyrvr7dt?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Baol.com%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&page=4

Sorry I messed up that post. It is a BBC short called

'I'll keep believing in my right to a future': Afghan women share stories of life under Taliban rule

Five years of Taliban rule for Afghanistan’s women and girls
https://www.channel4.com/news/five-years-of-taliban-rule-for-afghanistans-women-and-girls

‘Everything we achieved is lost’ says former Afghan women’s affairs minister
https://www.channel4.com/news/everything-we-achieved-is-lost-says-former-afghan-womens-affairs-minister

She makes an interesting point about how the west will interact with Saudi Arabia where women's lives are restricted but will not with Afghanistan.