WORLD NEWS | Women start their own businesses in Afghanistan amid employment constraints

kabul [Afghanistan]7th April (ANI): After losing their jobs due to the Taliban’s hard-line policies, several former female employees of government agencies have started their own businesses, TOLOnews reported.

The decision comes after Afghan women were banned from working in NGOs by de facto authorities.

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Several female students in Afghanistan have repeatedly claimed that they are experiencing mental and emotional problems due to the closure of women’s colleges and universities in the country.

Many of those who worked before the Taliban took power fled abroad in search of better opportunities, while those who could not escape were plunged into a serious humanitarian crisis.

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According to TOLOnews, Sima is the sole provider of the family of her right-wing members. She claims to work at the Academy of Sciences, but now makes Bolanis, a stuffed bread, to support her family.

Sima added that she has invested Afs 10,000 in her business. “After the Islamic Emirate took over, I lost my job. I borrowed some money from my relatives and started my own small business to cope with the hardships of life and pay the rent,” she was quoted by the Afghan News Agency as saying.

Since the Taliban took power in Kabul last year, the dire humanitarian situation has been exacerbated by an unprecedented nationwide economic, financial and humanitarian crisis.

The Taliban have reportedly dismantled systems that deal with gender-based violence, erected new barriers to women’s access to health care, prevented women’s aid workers from their work and attacked women’s rights protesters.

A group of human rights and education activists recently urged world leaders in an open letter to apply diplomatic pressure on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools for girls and allow them to work in the war-torn country, TOLOnews reported.

Additionally, Human Rights Watch’s Barr said in an earlier statement that the Taliban began disenfranchising women and girls as soon as they came to power on August 15, 2021. (ANI)

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