According to reporting and assessments from international organizations including UN Women, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International, the state of women's rights in Afghanistan represents one of the most severe gender and human rights crises in the world. Since returning to power, the Taliban has issued a series of restrictive decrees that effectively bar women and girls from secondary and higher education, limit their employment opportunities, and restrict their freedom of movement and public life. Global human rights monitors widely document these policies as a systematic erasure of women from public sphere participation and a grave violation of fundamental human rights.

• unwomen.org
• hrw.org
• amnesty.org