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Approximately 80% of all suicide attempts in Afghanistan are made by women.

World Health Organization studies suggest that, across the world, . But recent research noted by the The Guardian (and reported by outlets including the BBC and TortoiseMedia) suggests that in Afghanistan, .听

When the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021鈥攐n the heels of the abrupt withdrawal of US and coalition forces鈥攖he new government began a steady drumbeat of new restrictions on the daily lives of everyday citizens鈥ost notably, of course, for Afghan girls and women.

In terms of education, the Taliban has from entering or continuing secondary school, and prohibited public and private universities from . Desperate attempts by girls and women to discreetly continue their education through online lessons have been largely thwarted by the in much of the country, as well as the government鈥檚 broader ban on girls taking graduation exams. The Taliban is also making it to leave the country in order to pursue education elsewhere.听

Nearly every major Muslim country, from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan to the UAE and Qatar, has Afghanistan鈥檚 education restrictions.

When it comes to healthcare, among other measures, the Taliban has decreed that girls and women can 鈥攅ven though much of the country has few, if any, remaining women doctors. If families can find a female doctor, female patients are any distance to see that doctor unless they are accompanied by a close male relative (or 鈥渕ahram鈥�) who can serve as a guardian. Female health care workers, including doctors, are not permitted to treat male patients or even work directly with male colleagues. The government also to women.

In terms of employment, women have been in the country鈥檚 鈥済rand assembly鈥� and earlier this year thousands of women were fired from government jobs and instructed to return to their homes. The Taliban has for the UN or NGOs.听

Women are also now without mahrams, or traveling any distance by bus or car without them. Women are , sports centers, gyms, and even what were formerly women-only public baths. The Taliban has made , and threatened landlords who might rent them space.

The UN鈥檚 Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, has described the restrictions the government has imposed on female Afghans as 鈥渁 chilling attempt by the Taliban to make women invisible, by excluding them almost entirely from society.鈥�

In the months leading up to taking power, representatives of the Taliban pledged that it would be a 鈥渘ew Taliban,鈥� a more moderate one, that guided Afghanistan. Instead, those leading the government in Kabul are in some ways worse than their predecessors.听

When the US and its allies forced Taliban leaders from power in 2001, the new government which emerged in Kabul began to open the country up and bring girls and women out of the shadows of public life. to go to school, and women gradually assumed important leadership roles. They served in government, diplomatic posts, civil society and more. They were encouraged to dream, and empowered to chase those dreams.听

When the West abandoned Kabul and the Taliban returned, any dreams of a better future were quickly extinguished. An important question for us all: is it more painful to have never tasted freedom or to get a small taste and then have it snatched away?

This blog was researched and drafted with the assistance of Carlotta Murrin.