'Deep-rooted barriers' held women back long before Taliban retook power - UN

Afghan women line up to cast their vote in Kabul in 2010 While girls' and women's rights have drastically worsened after the Taliban resumed control of Afghanistan in 2021, "deep-rooted barriers" held women back long before then, the United Nations says. In 2011, Afghanistan was named the most dangerous country to be a woman, according to an international poll of experts on gender issues. High levels of violence, poor healthcare and poverty made Afghanistan the worst, the study by the