Stage 2: Afghanistan

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Stage 2: Afghanistan

Government

The Taliban Islamic Movement, which has complete control over government and dominates Afghan politics.

Under their harsh rule, they have token away women’s rights and neglected basic services.

Education

Due to lack of infrastructure, many students receive low-quality education, face discrimination, and struggle to get to school.

According to UNICEF only 16% of Afghanistan schools are girls only and many lack proper sanitation, showing how women education is undervalued in Afghanistan Society.

The average school life expectancy is only 10 years, and only 62.7% of people over the age of 15 can read and write.

Safety

Afghanistan has been ranked as the "least secure" country in the world, according to a survey.

There continues to be an ongoing and very high threat of terrorist attack throughout Afghanistan, including around airports and at land border crossings.

Canadians are warned to avoid all travel to Afghanistan due to the security situation, terrorist attacks, ongoing armed conflict, risk of kidnapping, and high crime rate.

Population

The current population of Afghanistan is 40,973,646

Its fertility rate of 4.56 births per woman still pushes the population up.

Afghanistan's population is growing at a rate of 2.33% per year.

Gender Inequality

In Afghanistan, the income of an average woman is less than 16% than of that of an average man, according to 2021 data.

In 2015, researchers found that 46.1% of women aged 15-49 said they had been subject to physical or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner within the previous year.

Afghanistan comes bottom of 156 countries when it comes to measuring what economic opportunity is open to women against the options on offer to men.

Poterty

In Afghanistan, 49.4% of the population lived below the national poverty line in 2020.

poverty in Afghanistan stems from two factors: “food insecurity and the lack of a social security net.”

Social security net: According to the World Bank, income and economic output in Afghanistan have fallen 20-30 percent, imports have declined by approximately 40 percent, and about 70 percent of Afghan households report they are unable to fully meet basic food or non-food needs.

Food insecurity: Almost 20 million people (half the population) are suffering either level-3 “crisis” or level-4 “emergency” levels of food insecurity under the assessment system of the World Food Programme (WFP)

Healthcare

Healthcare in Afghanistan is slowly improving after it was almost non-existent due to the decades of war.

There are media reports of low-quality, fake or expired Pakistani and Iranian drugs. As many patients cannot pay for their prescriptions doctors may give them expired medicines.

The physical and psychological effects of war have substantially increased the need for medical care. In the first quarter of 2019 there were 34 reported attacks on healthcare facilities, at least 87 were closed.

Human rights

There are multiple human rights violations and abuses under Taliban

They have prohibited women from traveling or going to their workplace without a male family member accompanying them

Since taking power, the Taliban have imposed rules that comprehensively prevent women and girls from exercising their most fundamental rights