RASC: Following the ever-increasing restrictions of the Taliban group in Afghanistan, especially in the area of women’s lives, the Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid of the United Nations in Afghanistan (OCHA) has announced that the number of victims of gender discrimination in Afghanistan has increased.
The organization said that the number of these people who need help and services against gender-based violence has increased by 25 percent compared to 2022.
OCHA wrote in a tweet on Tuesday, July 18, that the number of these people was 10.1 million in Afghanistan last year.
This institution added that the ever-increasing restrictions imposed by the Taliban group on women and girls increased this figure to 13.1 million people in May of this year.
OCHA said that although gender-based violence was present in the country in the past, the re-domination of the Taliban group over Afghanistan has caused significant violence in the society.
It should be noted that after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan and deprived women and girls from education, study and work, the cases of violence against this group have increased.
In the latest restrictions, this group has blocked the activity of women’s beauty salons, which leads to the unemployment of 60,000 women in this sector.
Organizations monitoring the situation of human rights in Afghanistan said that the imposition of these restrictions exposes Afghanistani women and girls to all kinds of domestic violence, forced marriages, and child marriage.
