The World Food Program (WFP) has reported that nine out of ten families headed by women in Afghanistan do not have access to sufficient food, underscoring the dire conditions faced by women under Taliban rule.
“Barred from most aspects of public life, women in Afghanistan are left with few options to feed themselves and their children,” the WFP said in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter. The United Nations food agency described its assistance to these women as “their last lifeline.”
According to U.N. statistics, nearly 24 million people in Afghanistan are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The WFP warned that the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s employment have severely hampered the delivery of aid.
International donors have also reduced funding to Afghanistan, citing the Taliban’s increasingly repressive policies toward women as a significant concern.
