20
May
2026
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Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban's adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts
You have to sell your children to survive. That is the reality of fathers and mothers in Afghanistan. Three out of four Afghans are no longer able to meet their basic needs. There is a risk of famine for nearly 5 million people. Women and girls pay the highest price for this. Daughters are married off so that a family has something to eat. Child marriages are on the rise. Access to education for girls is decreasing. It is a vicious circle, because it increases the vulnerability for a next generation of women, resulting in more exploitation and more forced marriages. Step by step, women are increasingly excluded from society. Their freedoms are increasingly restricted. Under the Taliban, they no longer have any right to education, they are not allowed to work or even talk in public. That is why we cannot remain silent. We continue to demand that girls can go to school, that women can work and that women, if they wish, can marry out of love.