Women Living Their Worst Nightmares Under Taliban Rule, HRW Says

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Afghanistan has become the world’s most serious women’s rights crisis three years after the Taliban takeover as the group tightens its grip on power, according to an international rights watchdog.

“Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is the only country where girls are banned from education beyond the sixth grade,” HRW said in a statement on Monday, adding the Taliban continue to deny women and girls their rights to education, work, movement, assembly, and other freedoms.