His life turned up. This Friday, August 15, 2025, the four years of the fall of Kabul (Afghanistan) and the arrival to the power of the Taliban regime. These Islamist fundamentalists in the origin of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, impose on their citizens ‘Sharia’ (understanding, Islamic law) with a consequence: the abolition of women’s rights.
Since 2021, almost 90 libicidal decrees have been taken in this region of Central Asia. Now it is forbidden that young people and women, among others, learn beyond high school, exercise certain professions, appear in public, walk down the street without their hood or simply speak out loud.
Last disposition to date: the obligation of the Afghanas of Caulfar the windows of their homes so as not to be seen, failing that they are exposed to the moral conviction of the regime. Beef, raped, humiliated and, sometimes, even killed for having said ‘no’ men and transgress the rules, these women are often forced to exile to live their lives freely. In flight, the hope of a return to the country seems distant. Among these women, there are Noor, a student passionate about contemporary history.
“Thousands of women are dead, others are simply afraid to express themselves or who have gone elsewhere, abroad,” says Noor*, a 30 -year -old Afghan student.
Because her daily life became “little living”, the young woman decided to join, in 2023, a refugee camp in Iran. Today, Noor lives only near Toronto (Canada), far from their relatives who have remained, for most of them, in Afghanistan. Of her friends from the past, the student has no news. “Everyone must have saved their skin,” he explains.
“Four years of brutality”
“The victims of Taliban barbarism are not only ‘resistant’. The Taliban ignore all women and all their rights,” said Samira Hamidi, regional campaign manager for southern Asia with the NGO Amnesty International. For this activist committed for many years in the protection and safeguarding of the rights of Afghans, the arrival in power of the Taliban caused “the general disappearance of all women” in the public space.
“There is no more space for women anywhere in Afghanistan. Neither in cases nor in other places. It is not absolutely necessary to normalize a phenomenon. These are four years of brutality,” insists Samira Hamidi.
Since 2021, women have been prohibited from intervening in political decisions, occupying a position of responsibility or defending fundamental human rights working, for example, within an association. “That, reacts to Noor, is not the worst. Women no longer have the right to speak or sing, even at home … How to expect them to pronounce speeches in public.”
Like many women of their generation and after another decree of “antivicious” adopted by the Taliban, Noor had to stop following their studies at home, in Afghanistan. His dream of becoming a history teacher in Kabul evaporated one morning in December 2022.
“I learn that we can no longer go to university. It was too much for me, they already took away all my freedoms, there, they took me what I had most important,” says the young woman.
For the United Nations, the succession of Libicidas provisions of the Islamist regime transformed Afghanistan into “land of illegality” and reduces women to “a life made of walls and silence.”
“According to the gender index for Afghanistan 2024, the country accuses a qualified” catastrophic “delay in terms of equality. Almost 80 % of young women are unemployed, without training, without school,” the world organization revealed on its website on July 1. “Women do not have many options available for them. As you can go to other countries, in the first place of the elections, they do not have many options. Samira Hamidi.” What would be urgently necessary is that countries around the world take the subject and do not drop Afghanistan. “
Eliminated from society
For James Elder, Unicef spokesman, the situation “the world community must be taken seriously” and this, “without distinction between girls and women.” To avoid “gender apartheid”, as defined by the UN.
In fact, if boys are deprived of education or the meeting of difficulties to go to school, as in certain provinces in which girls no longer have the right to study even before high school, there is much to fear that it disappears completely from society.
“It is a reality and the provisions that restrict freedoms vary from one province to another,” Deplora Gineviève Couraud, general secretary of the association to deny support for women of Afghanistan and former member of the High Council of Equality between women and men. “It is also an argument to extend more and more punitive rules especially Afghan territory: we begin by the principle that a restriction works in the Pandjchir, so we will also apply it to Kabul and vice versa.”
“Women can no longer be a midwife, nurses or doctors. And as they cannot go to a man if they are sick, we reach an extreme situation in which they no longer have the opportunity to heal,” says Gineviève Couraud.
The system feeds on itself and, therefore, is infinitely, without it being possible for Afghas to react accordingly. “And then it gives the impression that the process follows both legal and human logic. However, it is nothing,” explains Gineviève Couraud. “It is imperative to see what is happening there, remember James Elder, the emphasis should be put in the education of girls and young children, so that the woman has a place in society.”
On June 23, the UN reported a very serious humanitarian crisis in the region today (one in 5 Afghan suffers from hunger and 3.5 million children suffer from acute malnutrition); Crisis that has the consequence of accentuating the difficulties that women find daily.
“The repression has been systematized, now registering in structures and laws,” he also denounced Sima Bahous, UN director of the UN women, on the organization’s website.
“I have so much hope in the future and I am afraid for those who remain there, locked by the men of their family. It is so now: to get out of it you have to fight all the time, even with your own intimate circle,” says Noor.
In February 2025, 200 health establishments were counted in Afghanistan. In question, the gradual withdrawal of international humanitarian aid was related to diplomatic disputes within the United Nations Council.
*The first name has been changed.
Source: BFM TV
