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Afghan refugee women are pictured upon their arrival from Pakistan in April 2025. Islamabad wants to … More deport 800,000 Afghans after cancelling their residence permits — the second phase of a deportation programme which has already pushed out around 800,000 undocumented Afghans since 2023. (Photo credit: SANAULLAH SEIAM/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images On April 30, 2025, Rukhshana Media, an Afghan women’s media organization, reported on the tragic death of a young Afghan woman. The woman died after setting herself on fire in Taywara district, Ghor province, in an alleged attempt to escape a forced marriage. The Taliban de facto authorities have not commented on the case. Human rights organizations working on the situation in Afghanistan have been warning about the growing issue of suicide among women in Afghanistan, which they link to the omnipresent restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan that effectively erase them from public life. The return of the Taliban in August 2021 was followed by women and girls being stripped of their rights one by one. The last three years have seen the Taliban placing restrictions on all aspects of women’s lives in Afghanistan. From education to employment. From movement to participation in everyday activities. When the international community thought that it could not get any worse for women in Afghanistan, the Taliban kept coming up with new ways to impose more restrictions on women. On May 1, 2025, the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported that the Taliban had followed through on their decrees aimed at erasing women from public life in the country and restricting their freedom of movement. UNAMA continues to receive reports that Afghan women are being denied the opportunity to join the workforce, are unable to access services without a male relative, while girls are…

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