Women in Afghanistan are being forced to leave school in seventh grade and access to work has become restricted after the Taliban assuming power, according to a report compiled by Amnesty International.
The group's researchers visited Afghanistan in March as part of a nine-month-long investigation conducted from September 2021 to June 2022.Among them were women detained for protesting who described torture at the hands of Taliban guards, including beatings and threats of death.
The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights according to Amnesty International. Amnesty said the increase was fuelled by Afghanistan's economic and humanitarian crisis and the lack of education and job prospects for women and girls. One woman from a central province of Afghanistan told Amnesty she was compelled her to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a 30-year-old neighbour in exchange for 60,000 Afghanis .And, she said, she was also considering the same for her 10-year-old daughter but was holding off in hopes the girl could get an education and eventually secure a job to support the family.
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