Afghanistan
Gender Gap
World Economic Forum
Global Gender Gap Report Afghanistan
The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.
2023
Rank: 146 (out of 146 countries)
Score: 0.405
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2021
Rank: 156 (out of 156 countries)
Score: 0.444
UN Women Afghanistan
Afghanistan gender country profile 2024
The “Afghanistan gender country profile 2024”, produced with the financial support of the European Union, provides a snapshot of the current situation regarding gender equality in Afghanistan, noting the previous legal and institutional frameworks (from the period 1978–2021), and examining the current decrees, policies, and practices shaping the gender equality landscape under Taliban rule.
> unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2024/06/gender-country-profile-afghanistan
Women Count Data Hub: Afghanistan
Country Fact Sheet
> data.unwomen.org/country/afghanistan
Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most
By Fawzia Koofi
Jun 27, 2024 – The exclusion of women’s voices and discussion of their rights from next week’s summit allows the Taliban to oppress us with impunity. We must be heard.
> theguardian.com/un-doha-summit-taliban-afghan-women-rights
Gender Apartheid and Cultural Relativism under the Taliban and Iranian Regimes
By: Omar Sadr
Sep 11, 2023 – For Afshari, the Muslim cultural relativists who aim to amend the universal human rights scheme fall into two groups. The first includes those who want to Islamize modernity and human rights. They reject the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), labeling it as a Western value and instead offer a human rights scheme in accordance with Sharia. The second includes those interested in presenting an Islamic base for a modern human rights scheme. In other words, their project is the “modernization” of Islam.
> https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45300