{"id":5224,"date":"2021-12-17T03:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2021-12-17T03:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:48:24","slug":"women-protest-the-harsh-economic-conditions-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/women-protest-the-harsh-economic-conditions-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Women protest the harsh economic conditions in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rukhshana Media&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, women protested outside the United Nations office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, demanding international attention to the humanitarian and economic crises in Afghanistan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of women protesters who marched toward the United Nations office in Kabul, chanted, \u201cFood, Work and Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am the head of a household, I should have the right to work,\u201d Marjan Amiri, one of the protesters, told Rukhshana Media, adding how the Taliban\u2019s restrictions on women\u2019s work have prevented her from providing for her family. \u201cThe food price is rising and I can\u2019t put food on the table. The world should see how a nation is dying of starvation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another group of women who were also protesting the humanitarian crisis in the country, chanted, \u201cI sold my child for a piece of bread\u201d, and \u201cI sold my kidneys&nbsp; [to buy] medicine.\u201d The protesters also asked for meaningful inclusion of women in the government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe marched toward the United Nations office [in Kabul] and chanted about poverty and starvation and against Pakistan, but unfortunately the Taliban suppressed our protest,\u201d Reshmin, one of the protesters, told Rukhshana Media. \u201cThey hit a protester on her hand and her phone fell. When she tried to pick it up, a Taliban gunman stepped on her hand,\u201d she said, adding that protesters were dispersed after the Taliban gunmen threatened to shoot them.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A third group of women who gathered in an indoor place, also protested the harsh economic conditions, and demanded that women should be allowed to return to work and their salaries should be paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protests come as the country\u2019s population is gripped by starvation. In October the UN World Food Program (WFP) warned that half of Afghanistan\u2019s population is facing starvation if no immediate action was taken. \u201cNinety-five percent of the people don\u2019t have enough food, and now we\u2019re looking at 23 million people marching towards starvation,\u201d said David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Program in an interview with the BBC on early November, describing the situation in Afghanistan as \u201cthe worst humanitarian crisis on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rukhshana Media&nbsp; On Thursday, women protested outside the United Nations office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, demanding international attention to the humanitarian and economic crises in Afghanistan.&nbsp; A group of women protesters who marched toward the United Nations office in Kabul, chanted, \u201cFood, Work and Freedom.\u201d \u201cI am the head of a household, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[900,896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-uncategorized-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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