Report: Half of Afghan Women Rarely Leave Home
UNESCO says the ban could push 600,000 women out of the workforce by 2066 and deepen Afghanistan’s poverty and teacher shortages.
- On August 6, 2026, Afghan fathers in Kabul continued seeking alternative ways to educate their daughters as the Taliban ban on secondary schooling affects at least one million girls nationwide.
- Taliban authorities returned to power in March 2022, subsequently barring girls from secondary schools based on their interpretation of Islamic law—the only such restriction existing globally.
- Families employ home tutoring with salvaged textbooks while others pay private schools around 10,000 Afghanis monthly, with no graduation certificates offered due to heightened risk.
- Nasir, a 47-year-old father, confided that his younger daughter "is depressed and does not always have strong morale to continue learning on her own at home."
- Despite European countries regularly denouncing Afghan restrictions on women, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany have refused visas to Afghan families, leaving fathers like Engineer Ahmad without clear pathways forward.
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Afghan women face Taliban restrictions: half of them leave their homes up to twice a month, points to UN Women.
The United Nations says 2.4 million Afghan girls have been prevented from completing secondary education since the Taliban's return, and is calling for an end to this discrimination.
What it is like to run a business as a woman in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
No area of women's lives is safe from the Taliban restrictions Originally published on Global VoicesWomen in Afghanistan. Screenshot from the video ‘Women’s rights being rolled back in Afghanistan – BBC News’ on the BBC News YouTube channel. Fair use. This article was written by Arezo in 2025. It is being published with her consent as part of a special coverage series that tells the stories of young women and girls from Afghanistan following the…
Half of Afghan women rarely leave home as Taliban restrictions
GENEVA: Half of Afghan women now leave their homes only once or twice a month as Taliban-imposed restrictions curtail their freedom of movement and participation in public life, according to data released by UN Women on Wednesday. As the Taliban prepare to mark the fifth anniversary of their return to power this week, Afghanistan remains the only country in the world to ban
A report by Uno illustrates the gloomy reality of women in Afghanistan. They barely leave the house, need a man's permission. Many still hope for a better future.
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