The UN agency for women’s empowerment warned that Afghanistan was facing a “gender emergency” as Taliban militants prevent women from leaving home and participating in public life.
Mohammad Naciri, UN Women’s Asia-Pacific director, said the agency had evidence that local insurgents were erasing women’s freedoms, undermining Taliban assurances that women would have a place in Afghan society under their rule.
“We have some evidence or reports from different provinces saying women are not allowed to leave their domicile without . . . a male chaperone,” he told the Financial Times in the agency’s first comments to media. “In some provinces women have been asked to continue to stay at home.
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