Latest items for Afghanistan
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"This tightening chokehold [referring to the laws issued by the Taliban which suppress women] has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls" (para 6).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"This tightening chokehold [referring to the laws issued by the Taliban which suppress women] has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls" (para 6).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-2
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1). "This tightening chokehold [referring to the laws issued by the Taliban which suppress women] has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls" (para 6).
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-2
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1). "This tightening chokehold [referring to the laws issued by the Taliban which suppress women] has made Afghanistan one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls" (para 6).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RCDW-LAW-2
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1).
Variables: RCDW-LAW-2
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-5
"And so, the state/group [the Taliban] encourages economically crushed families, impoverished by the Taliban, to sell their young daughters in exchange for a dowry that lets them support the rest of the family" (para 3).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-5
"And so, the state/group [the Taliban] encourages economically crushed families, impoverished by the Taliban, to sell their young daughters in exchange for a dowry that lets them support the rest of the family" (para 3).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-LAW-1
"In general, the Taliban’s system runs on laws that get changed, forgotten or scrapped as needed to oppress women, such as the abolition of the minimum marriage-age law, which made the only 'legitimate' criterion for a girl’s marriage that she has reached puberty or in other words, that she is 'fit for consummation'. And so, the state/group encourages economically crushed families, impoverished by the Taliban, to sell their young daughters in exchange for a dowry that lets them support the rest of the family" (para 2-3).
Variables: MARR-LAW-1
"In general, the Taliban’s system runs on laws that get changed, forgotten or scrapped as needed to oppress women, such as the abolition of the minimum marriage-age law, which made the only 'legitimate' criterion for a girl’s marriage that she has reached puberty or in other words, that she is 'fit for consummation'. And so, the state/group encourages economically crushed families, impoverished by the Taliban, to sell their young daughters in exchange for a dowry that lets them support the rest of the family" (para 2-3).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-LAW-1
"Or the law [issued by the Taliban] that legitimises domestic violence under the label of 'corrective beating', which gives a husband the right to beat his wife, as long as he does not cause fractures or serious injuries" (para 4).
Variables: DV-LAW-1
"Or the law [issued by the Taliban] that legitimises domestic violence under the label of 'corrective beating', which gives a husband the right to beat his wife, as long as he does not cause fractures or serious injuries" (para 4).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-LAW-1
"And if a woman [under the Taliban] survives an attempt to end her life, she usually cannot find treatment, because women are forbidden from being treated by male doctors" (para 7).
Variables: DACH-LAW-1
"And if a woman [under the Taliban] survives an attempt to end her life, she usually cannot find treatment, because women are forbidden from being treated by male doctors" (para 7).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ATDW-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-2
"The Taliban also made sure to restrict the right to request divorce and shut down most shelters for abused women. If a girl or woman tries to escape this tragedy, the 'morality police' pursue her" (para 5).
Variables: ATDW-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-2
"The Taliban also made sure to restrict the right to request divorce and shut down most shelters for abused women. If a girl or woman tries to escape this tragedy, the 'morality police' pursue her" (para 5).
Sept. 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1). "At the same time, the number of female doctors keeps shrinking through emigration or retirement, and because girls are banned from studying" (para 8).
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls" (para 1). "At the same time, the number of female doctors keeps shrinking through emigration or retirement, and because girls are banned from studying" (para 8).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"Domestic violence also emerges again and again in women’s testimonies, as a cause of miscarriage and a method of control in households where women cannot escape, cannot seek shelter and cannot access contraception. In Kandahar, Reyhana* recounts how her sister Sakina*, a young widow, was forced by her in-laws to marry her brother-in-law. When she objected, they beat her repeatedly. “Each time they hit her, she bled. She lost her baby”" (para 19-20).
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"Domestic violence also emerges again and again in women’s testimonies, as a cause of miscarriage and a method of control in households where women cannot escape, cannot seek shelter and cannot access contraception. In Kandahar, Reyhana* recounts how her sister Sakina*, a young widow, was forced by her in-laws to marry her brother-in-law. When she objected, they beat her repeatedly. “Each time they hit her, she bled. She lost her baby”" (para 19-20).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: PPWA-DATA-1
"The reproductive crisis has become inseparable from Afghanistan’s economic crisis. A doctor in the northern province of Jawzjan estimates that 80% of the pregnant and breastfeeding women she sees are malnourished. “They have anaemia, vitamin deficiencies, low blood pressure. Their bodies are too weak to carry pregnancies safely,” she says" (para 17-18)
Variables: PPWA-DATA-1
"The reproductive crisis has become inseparable from Afghanistan’s economic crisis. A doctor in the northern province of Jawzjan estimates that 80% of the pregnant and breastfeeding women she sees are malnourished. “They have anaemia, vitamin deficiencies, low blood pressure. Their bodies are too weak to carry pregnancies safely,” she says" (para 17-18)
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"In Kandahar, Reyhana* recounts how her sister Sakina*, a young widow, was forced by her in-laws to marry her brother-in-law. When she objected, they beat her repeatedly. “Each time they hit her, she bled. She lost her baby”" (para 20).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"In Kandahar, Reyhana* recounts how her sister Sakina*, a young widow, was forced by her in-laws to marry her brother-in-law. When she objected, they beat her repeatedly. “Each time they hit her, she bled. She lost her baby”" (para 20).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ISSA-PRACTICE-1
"Humaira*, 38, says she took abortion pills when she discovered she was pregnant with a girl. “My husband wanted a son. If I gave birth to another daughter, he would beat me or divorce me. So I bought medicine secretly.” Her story is echoed by other women in Kandahar and Jawzjan who described miscarriages that were either forced, self-induced or the result of abuse after ultrasounds showed the foetus was female" (para 22-23).
Variables: ISSA-PRACTICE-1
"Humaira*, 38, says she took abortion pills when she discovered she was pregnant with a girl. “My husband wanted a son. If I gave birth to another daughter, he would beat me or divorce me. So I bought medicine secretly.” Her story is echoed by other women in Kandahar and Jawzjan who described miscarriages that were either forced, self-induced or the result of abuse after ultrasounds showed the foetus was female" (para 22-23).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2
"Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated. The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all. In interviews with the Guardian and Zan Times, women from seven provinces have explained the same traumas: pregnancies they cannot prevent, miscarriages they cannot treat and violence they cannot escape" (para 3-5). "Now she is pregnant again. Her local clinic no longer offers contraceptives and her...more
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2
"Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated. The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all. In interviews with the Guardian and Zan Times, women from seven provinces have explained the same traumas: pregnancies they cannot prevent, miscarriages they cannot treat and violence they cannot escape" (para 3-5). "Now she is pregnant again. Her local clinic no longer offers contraceptives and her...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated. The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all. In interviews with the Guardian and Zan Times, women from seven provinces have explained the same traumas: pregnancies they cannot prevent, miscarriages they cannot treat and violence they cannot escape" (para 3-5). "Now she is pregnant again. Her local clinic no longer offers contraceptives and her...more
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated. The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all. In interviews with the Guardian and Zan Times, women from seven provinces have explained the same traumas: pregnancies they cannot prevent, miscarriages they cannot treat and violence they cannot escape" (para 3-5). "Now she is pregnant again. Her local clinic no longer offers contraceptives and her...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1
"Two years ago, after an earthquake left Zarghona*, 29, and her family living in a tent, she went three days without access to a toilet and developed a life-threatening intestinal blockage. Surgeons operated and warned her husband plainly that another pregnancy could kill her. A year after her surgery, with no contraception available and a husband insisting he “needed a daughter”, Zarghona became pregnant again. She spent nine months in fear, tried to end the pregnancy with herbs and saffron, and managed just one antenatal visit. When her labour began, doctors in the city of Herat told her that both a caesarean and natural delivery carried a high chance of...more
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1
"Two years ago, after an earthquake left Zarghona*, 29, and her family living in a tent, she went three days without access to a toilet and developed a life-threatening intestinal blockage. Surgeons operated and warned her husband plainly that another pregnancy could kill her. A year after her surgery, with no contraception available and a husband insisting he “needed a daughter”, Zarghona became pregnant again. She spent nine months in fear, tried to end the pregnancy with herbs and saffron, and managed just one antenatal visit. When her labour began, doctors in the city of Herat told her that both a caesarean and natural delivery carried a high chance of...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-2
"It appears to create a caste system in which offenders are categorised as either 'free' or 'a slave,' with women being placed on the same level as slaves. Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 1-4).
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-2
"It appears to create a caste system in which offenders are categorised as either 'free' or 'a slave,' with women being placed on the same level as slaves. Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 1-4).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-7
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors" (para 7).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-7
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors" (para 7).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"However, the contradiction lies in that a woman must remain fully covered while simultaneously proving her injuries to a judge" (para 9).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"However, the contradiction lies in that a woman must remain fully covered while simultaneously proving her injuries to a judge" (para 9).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4) This suggests that laws encourage husbands to commit acts of violence, so women probably are not inclined to report DV as often (IH-CODER COMMENT). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out...more
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4) This suggests that laws encourage husbands to commit acts of violence, so women probably are not inclined to report DV as often (IH-CODER COMMENT). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors. Regarding violence against women, Article 32 states that only if the husband beats the woman with a stick and this act results in severe injury such as 'a wound or bodily bruising', and the woman can prove it before a judge, will the husband be sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment. However, the contradiction lies in that a woman must remain fully covered while simultaneously proving her injuries to a judge. She is also required to be accompanied by a...more
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors. Regarding violence against women, Article 32 states that only if the husband beats the woman with a stick and this act results in severe injury such as 'a wound or bodily bruising', and the woman can prove it before a judge, will the husband be sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment. However, the contradiction lies in that a woman must remain fully covered while simultaneously proving her injuries to a judge. She is also required to be accompanied by a...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-LAW-1, DV-LAW-2
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors. Regarding violence against women, Article 32 states that only if the husband beats the woman...more
Variables: DV-LAW-1, DV-LAW-2
"Disturbing clauses state that 'slave masters,' or husbands, can give out physical punishments to their wives or subordinates. Meanwhile, if a religious scholar or member of the elite commit an offense, the consequence is limited to advice or a court summons. For the middle class the same crime can result in imprisonment, while the 'lower class' faces both corporal punishment and imprisonment" (para 2-4). "According to the code, corporal punishment for serious crimes will be carried out by Islamic clerics, but encourages husbands to give out 'discretionary punishments' to their wives for less serious misdemeanors. Regarding violence against women, Article 32 states that only if the husband beats the woman...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In addition, the code stops women from seeking refuge with their family to escape violence at home. Human rights movement Rawadari said that Article 34 of the code states that a woman who repeatedly goes to her father's house or that of other relatives without the permission of her husband and 'does not return home despite her husband's request' faces three months in prison. Her family and relatives would also face punishment" (para 12-14).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In addition, the code stops women from seeking refuge with their family to escape violence at home. Human rights movement Rawadari said that Article 34 of the code states that a woman who repeatedly goes to her father's house or that of other relatives without the permission of her husband and 'does not return home despite her husband's request' faces three months in prison. Her family and relatives would also face punishment" (para 12-14).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1, RCDW-LAW-2
"In stop-start efforts since November, Taliban officials have cracked down on women and girls in the western city of Herat who have been ignoring the hardline group's rules by showing their faces. Enforcement agents are preventing them from entering hospitals and seminaries and pulling them out of public transport. Initially, women and girls were punished for not wearing a burka — the Afghan burka is typically blue, has a netted opening for the eyes and drapes down around the body, largely constraining the woman wearing it. Later, after what residents described as pushback, officials enforcing the rules relented and allowed women to wear the typical conservative dress in this part...more
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1, RCDW-LAW-2
"In stop-start efforts since November, Taliban officials have cracked down on women and girls in the western city of Herat who have been ignoring the hardline group's rules by showing their faces. Enforcement agents are preventing them from entering hospitals and seminaries and pulling them out of public transport. Initially, women and girls were punished for not wearing a burka — the Afghan burka is typically blue, has a netted opening for the eyes and drapes down around the body, largely constraining the woman wearing it. Later, after what residents described as pushback, officials enforcing the rules relented and allowed women to wear the typical conservative dress in this part...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RCDW-PRACTICE-1, RCDW-PRACTICE-2
"In stop-start efforts since November, Taliban officials have cracked down on women and girls in the western city of Herat who have been ignoring the hardline group's rules by showing their faces. Enforcement agents are preventing them from entering hospitals and seminaries and pulling them out of public transport. Initially, women and girls were punished for not wearing a burka — the Afghan burka is typically blue, has a netted opening for the eyes and drapes down around the body, largely constraining the woman wearing it. Later, after what residents described as pushback, officials enforcing the rules relented and allowed women to wear the typical conservative dress in this part...more
Variables: RCDW-PRACTICE-1, RCDW-PRACTICE-2
"In stop-start efforts since November, Taliban officials have cracked down on women and girls in the western city of Herat who have been ignoring the hardline group's rules by showing their faces. Enforcement agents are preventing them from entering hospitals and seminaries and pulling them out of public transport. Initially, women and girls were punished for not wearing a burka — the Afghan burka is typically blue, has a netted opening for the eyes and drapes down around the body, largely constraining the woman wearing it. Later, after what residents described as pushback, officials enforcing the rules relented and allowed women to wear the typical conservative dress in this part...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2
"In interviews conducted since November, more than a dozen Herat residents described different incidents to NPR. They all requested anonymity, or that we only use an initial of their first names, fearing reprisal from Taliban officials. The crackdown was run by officials of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which is tasked with the implementation of the Taliban's interpretation of Islamic law" (para 5) While it doesn't discuss protests implicitly, it suggests they can not speak out against the taliban (IBH-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2
"In interviews conducted since November, more than a dozen Herat residents described different incidents to NPR. They all requested anonymity, or that we only use an initial of their first names, fearing reprisal from Taliban officials. The crackdown was run by officials of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which is tasked with the implementation of the Taliban's interpretation of Islamic law" (para 5) While it doesn't discuss protests implicitly, it suggests they can not speak out against the taliban (IBH-CODER COMMENT).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"Policing of the rules spread to women in vehicles. The male health worker who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity said agents of the vice and virtue ministry set up checkpoints to flag down vehicles to check what women inside were wearing. They ordered women to only sit in the back of shared minibuses, which operate as a privately run transport system. The male health worker said that within days, women were banned from sitting in a shared minibus with men altogether. A female medic said that the ban immediately drove up the price for women to ride public transport, from about 50 cents a ride to $1.60...more
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"Policing of the rules spread to women in vehicles. The male health worker who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity said agents of the vice and virtue ministry set up checkpoints to flag down vehicles to check what women inside were wearing. They ordered women to only sit in the back of shared minibuses, which operate as a privately run transport system. The male health worker said that within days, women were banned from sitting in a shared minibus with men altogether. A female medic said that the ban immediately drove up the price for women to ride public transport, from about 50 cents a ride to $1.60...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"At the main hospital in the Western city of Herat, one health worker described female staff milling outside the entryway for hours, waiting for colleagues on the night shift to hand over their burkas so they could enter — like a token that allowed them "entry permission," the worker said. In another incident, Human Rights Watch reported on a female surgeon, who was detained for several hours for not donning the burka" (para 3). "And he described chaotic scenes, including the outer perimeter of the hospital crowded with female health workers. They were waiting for their female colleagues on the night shift to exit, and to hand over their burkas...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"At the main hospital in the Western city of Herat, one health worker described female staff milling outside the entryway for hours, waiting for colleagues on the night shift to hand over their burkas so they could enter — like a token that allowed them "entry permission," the worker said. In another incident, Human Rights Watch reported on a female surgeon, who was detained for several hours for not donning the burka" (para 3). "And he described chaotic scenes, including the outer perimeter of the hospital crowded with female health workers. They were waiting for their female colleagues on the night shift to exit, and to hand over their burkas...more
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"There, one male medic and another male health worker, who both requested anonymity, told NPR that agents of the vice and virtue ministry prevented female patients and medical staff from entry unless they donned the burka. The medic said the rule was hardest on the impoverished women, women who had scraped together "100 to 150 Afghanis to come to the hospital," roughly between $2.30 and $3. "And when they came to the hospital, they weren't allowed to enter"" (para 13-14).
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"There, one male medic and another male health worker, who both requested anonymity, told NPR that agents of the vice and virtue ministry prevented female patients and medical staff from entry unless they donned the burka. The medic said the rule was hardest on the impoverished women, women who had scraped together "100 to 150 Afghanis to come to the hospital," roughly between $2.30 and $3. "And when they came to the hospital, they weren't allowed to enter"" (para 13-14).
Aug. 29, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ASR-PRACTICE-2
"The city, which lies near the border with Iran, is comparatively more liberal than others in Afghanistan. Before the Taliban seized power in August 2021, some women and girls participated in football teams, volleyball teams and chess clubs. They were a common sight in academic institutions" (para 10) This suggests that girls in other parts of the country can not participate in school sports (IBH-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: ASR-PRACTICE-2
"The city, which lies near the border with Iran, is comparatively more liberal than others in Afghanistan. Before the Taliban seized power in August 2021, some women and girls participated in football teams, volleyball teams and chess clubs. They were a common sight in academic institutions" (para 10) This suggests that girls in other parts of the country can not participate in school sports (IBH-CODER COMMENT).