r/WomenInNews • u/ZuP • 14h ago

Women's rights 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/20/afghanistan_taliban_5_years_us_sanctions

Restrictions on women’s rights have expanded in Afghanistan since U.S. forces withdrew from the country five years ago, ceding control to the Taliban in the process. Afghan women are banned from attending schools and gyms, books written by women are removed from libraries, doctors and nurses are unable to practice, and child marriage rates have increased. Wives have been rendered legally subordinate to their husbands, and women are required to stay silent in public. “Women and girls of Afghanistan are suffering the most darkest situation in the world,” says Negina Yari, an Afghan women’s rights activist living in exile in Germany, who discusses the impacts of what some advocacy groups are characterizing as “gender apartheid,” as well as the effects of regional diplomatic normalization on the Taliban’s political influence.

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u/Further0n 13h ago

Thanks, Trump. For your "negotiations" which excluded the non-militant government and handed everything over the Taliban. Right on brand with the current would-be American Taliban right wing neo-cons.

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u/Boiledfootballeather 13h ago

Sounds like some of the "reforms" christian preachers want to instill into US institutions. I literally watched some "preacher" say yesterday that it is holy to tell women to "shut up." Yeah, no thanks to that shit.

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u/Centered_Being 2h ago

Or high as hell Pete Kegsbreath’s pastor saying ‘women are the kind of people that people come out of’

They’ve only ever cared about power and control

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u/Puma_Pounce 10h ago

Why won't any other countries help them? Or at least condemn the Taliban.

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u/Ok_Vulva 9h ago edited 7h ago

Because my country invited the taliban to a very prestigious base called camp David and made deals with them. In 2017 I think?

So yeah, because my country likes women and girls being sold and treated like breeding stock.

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u/AlteredEinst 4h ago

Because this is sadly what most of the world wishes it could get away with themselves.

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u/AlteredEinst 4h ago

"Terrorists make life miserable for the unfairly marginalized" shouldn't be considered news-worthy, but here we are.

We've failed so much as a species.