Five years of Taliban rule has now resulted in a 'hell on earth' for Afghan women

Twenty one million women now face the world’s most severe systemic and institutionalised denial of human rights while the world turns its back writes Foreign Editor David Pratt

Afghans have gathered in Kabul to mark five years since the Taliban returned to power.

Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghan women face sweeping restrictions on education, work, movement and public life, with the UN describing Afghanistan as the world’s worst country for women’s rights. As international aid funding falls, the UN is urging donors not to abandon programmes supporting Afgha

By David Brunnstrom Aug 14 (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed to donors on Friday not to cut funding for women's programs in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, saying this would add to suffering in a country where conditions for women are already the worst in the world.

Women across the country speak of public floggings, losing their jobs, and barriers to healthcare that endanger lives.

Decrees restricting the rights of women and girls to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, experts say.

The United Nations agency for women’s rights observed the fifth anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan by noting that women have been “systematically stripped of their rights” and effectively “erased from public life” by the Islamist regime.

‘Afghanistan is hell for women’: Marking 5 years of Taliban rule  CNN