NEW YORK CITY: Five years after the Taliban seized control of Kabul for the second time, Afghan women and girls are trapped in what the UN’s top official responsible for the issue described as an unparalleled crisis of rights, which has been worsened by a collapse in international funding that is stripping away the last of the lifelines available to them. Susan Ferguson, the special representative for UN Women in Afghanistan, said on Friday that the de facto authorities in the country have issued more than 100 decrees since August 2021 that systematically dismantled women’s rights.

Five years after the Taliban seized power, women and girls in Afghanistan have been systematically stripped of their rights, UN agencies said on Wednesday. De facto authorities…

Afghanistan has the worst women’s rights crisis in the world, U.N. Women said, with the Taliban issuing over 100 decrees targeting women and girls since regaining power in 2021.