What it means to be a woman in Afghanistan

A United Nations report released in July showed the number of women and children killed and injured increased in May and June. [Courtesy]

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has more impact on women than their male counterparts as it puts their rights as well as their lives at stake, international gender activists say. 

According to Shabia Mantoo, United Nations refugee agency’s spokesperson, 80 per cent of the nearly 250,000 people who fled from Afghanistan in May and June were women and children.