4 years after the fall of Kabul, the daily life of women under the Taliban regime

Since August 15, 2021 and the arrival of the Taliban at the top of power, the fate of the Afghanes is more uncertain every day. Similarly, On site, freedoms are reduced to nothing. For example, For many women, exile is the only way to envisage the future.

Their life was turned upside down. For example, This Friday. Meanwhile, August 15, 2025, the four years of the fall of Kabul (Afghanistan) and the coming to power of the Taliban regime. Nevertheless, These Islamist fundamentalists at the origin of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan. In addition, impose on its citizens ‘Sharia’ (understand, Islamic law) with a consequence: the abolition of women’s rights.

Since 2021, nearly 90 liberticide decrees have been taken in this region of Central 4 years after fall kabul, new Asia. In addition, It is now prohibited for young girls. Furthermore. Moreover, women, among others, to learn beyond high school, to 4 years after fall kabul, exercise certain professions, to appear in public, to walk in the street without their riding hood or simply to speak out loud.

Latest provision to date: the obligation for Afghanas to caulfate the windows of their dwellings so as not to be. Consequently, seen. Similarly, failing which they are exposed to the moral condemnation of the regime. Therefore, Beaten. Nevertheless. Therefore, raped, humiliated and sometimes even killed for having said ‘no’ to men and transgressed the rules, these women are often forced to go into exile to live their lives freely. Meanwhile, In flight, the hope of a return to the country then seems distant. Therefore, Among these women, there is Noor, a student passionate about contemporary history.

“Thousands of women are dead. Similarly. 4 years after fall kabul, new Consequently, others are simply afraid of expressing themselves or who have gone elsewhere, abroad,” says Noor*, an Afghan 30 -year -old student.

Because her daily life became “unlivable”. Therefore, the young 4 years after fall kabul, woman decided to join, in 2023, a refugee camp in Iran. Nevertheless, Today. Consequently. Noor lives alone near Toronto (Canada), far from his relatives who have remained, for the majority of them, in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, From her friends from the past, the student no longer really has any news. Furthermore, “All must have saved their skin,” she explains.

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“Four years of brutality”

“The victims of Taliban barbarism are not only ‘resistant’. Similarly, The Taliban ignore all women. However, all their rights,” said Samira Hamidi, regional campaign manager for South Asia with the NGO Amnesty International. Moreover, For this activist committed for many years in the protection. 4 years after fall kabul, new safeguarding of the rights of the Afghanes. the coming to power of the Taliban caused “the general disappearance of all women” in public space.

“There is no more room for women nowhere in Afghanistan. Neither in the instances, nor 4 years after fall kabul, elsewhere. It is absolutely not necessary to normalize a phenomenon. These are four years of brutality,” insists Samira Hamidi.

Since 2021. women have been prohibited from intervening in political decisions. to occupy a position of responsibility or to defend fundamental human rights by working, for example, within an association. “That, reacts Noor, it’s not the worst. Women no longer have the right to speak or sing, even at home … How to hope that they can make speeches in public”.

Like many women of her generation. after yet another “antivice” decree adopted by the Taliban. Noor had to give up pursuing her studies at home, in Afghanistan. 4 years after fall kabul, new His dream of one day becoming a history teacher in Kabul evaporated one morning in December 2022.

“I learn that we can no longer go to university. It was too much for me. I was already taken away from all my freedoms. there, I 4 years after fall kabul, was taken from what I had more important,” says the young woman.

For the United Nations. the succession of liberticide provisions of the Islamist regime transformed Afghanistan into “land of lawlessness”. reduces women to “a life made of walls and silence”.

“According to the genre index for Afghanistan 2024. the country accuses a qualified delay in” catastrophic 4 years after fall kabul, new “in terms of equality. Almost 80 % of young women are unemployed, without training, without school,” revealed the world organization on its website on July 1. “Women do not have a lot of choices available to them. As you go. those who can flee to other countries with, at the top of the choices, Pakistan and Iran,” concludes Samira Hamidi. “What would be urgently necessary is that countries around the world 4 years after fall kabul. seize the subject and do not drop Afghanistan.”

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Deleted from society

For James Elder. spokesperson for UNICEF, the situation “must necessarily be taken seriously by the world community” and this, “without making a distinction between little girls and women”. In order to avoid “gender apartheid”, as defined by the UN.

Indeed. if children are deprived of education. encounter difficulties to go to school, as in 4 years after fall kabul, new certain provinces where little girls no longer have the right to study even before secondary, there is a lot to fear that it will disappear completely from society.

“It is 4 years after fall kabul, new a reality. the provisions restricting freedoms vary from one province to another. ” deplores Geneviève Couraud, general secretary of the NEGAR 4 years after fall kabul, Association Support to the women of Afghanistan and former member of the High Council for Equality between Women and Men. “It is also an argument to extend increasingly punitive rules on the entire Afghan territory: we start from the. principle that a restriction works at the Pandjchir so we will also apply it to Kabul. and vice versa.”

“Women can no longer be a midwife, nurses or doctors. And as they cannot address a man if they are sick. we come to an extreme situation where they no longer have the opportunity to heal,” says Geneviève Couraud.

The system feeds on itself and is therefore infinitely, without it being possible for Afghans to react accordingly. “And then it gives the impression that the process 4 years after fall kabul, new follows a logic both legal and human. However, it is nothing,” explains Geneviève Couraud. “It is imperative to look at what’s going on there. recalls James 4 years after fall kabul. Elder, the emphasis must be put on the education of little girls and little boys, so that the woman has a place in society.”

On June 4 years after fall kabul, new 23. the UN reported a very serious humanitarian crisis in the region currently (one in 5 Afghan suffers from hunger and 3.5 million children suffer from acute 4 years after fall kabul, malnutrition). Crisis which has the consequence of accentuating the difficulties encountered by women on a daily basis.

“Repression has been systematized. now registering in structures and laws,” also denounced Sima Bahous, director of UN Women, on the organization’s website.

“I have so little hope in the future. I am afraid for those who stay there, locked up by the men of their family. It’s like that now: to get out of it you have to fight all the time. including with your own intimate circle,” says Noor.

In February 2025, 200 closed health establishments were counted in Afghanistan. In question, the gradual withdrawal of international humanitarian aid linked to diplomatic disputes within the United Nations Council.

*The first name has 4 years after fall kabul, new been changed.