Girls are bearing the largest brunt of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, in keeping with a brand new document by way of Save the Children.
Nearly a 12 months because the workforce swept again to energy, younger women are much more likely than boys to be remoted, hungry and depressed, analysis displays.
Save the Children discovered that virtually part of women in Afghanistan don’t seem to be attending faculty, when put next with 20% of boys.
It additionally discovered {that a} quarter of women confirmed indicators of melancholy when put next with 16% of boys.
“Girls are bearing the brunt of the deteriorating situation”, said Chris Nyamandi, Save the Children Country Director in Afghanistan.
Nyamandi added: “They’re missing more meals, suffering from isolation and emotional distress and are staying home while boys go to school.
“This is a humanitarian crisis, but also a child rights catastrophe.”
Save the Children found that an economic crisis, drought, and new Taliban restrictions on schooling for girls have “shattered girls’ lives”.
The charity said girls it had interviewed reported an increase in demand for child marriages to help improve their family’s financial situation.
The Taliban came to power last August after leading an offensive across Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US troops from the country.
Nyamandi urged the international community to provide humanitarian funding to Afghanistan to improve the situation for the country’s children.
He said: “The solution cannot be found in Afghanistan alone. The solution lies in the corridors of power and in the offices of our global political leaders.
“If they don’t provide immediate humanitarian funding and find a way to revive the banking system and support the spiralling economy, children’s lives will be lost, and more boys and girls will lose their childhoods to labour, marriage and rights violations.”
