Almost two days after the earthquake, neither the free women in Afghanistan touched the strict gender rules and cultural restrictions nor quoted the New York Times report.
The report mentions that the Taliban government “no contact with skin skin” prohibits male rescuers to physically help women, even in situations threatening life. Because of this rule, there was a delay or denial of medical care to women imprisoned under a little.
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Taliban restrictions and 19-year-old survivors from Andarluckak in Kunar province said that women and girls are facing a desperate lack of medical care, remained behind and much without help.
She also described the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and said that many women remained trapped under the debris or were not treated. “Some of them are bleeding, pushed aside,” Aysha said, according to New York Times, adding, “They gathered us in one corner and forgot us.”
Forbid women’s entry in medical education:
The Taliban has long imposed a ban on women studying and worked in public roles, resulting in a serious lack of healthcare workers, leading to difficult to provide medical care to women in rural areas.
At the beginning of 2024, the Taliban imposed a ban on female enrollment in medical education and the lack of doctors and rescue workers was too obvious after the earthquake.
Women were left under the stones:
A male volunteer who traveled to Mazar Dara-Etheebullah Muhazeb-and reported that the All-Male medical team hesitated to pull women out of the ruins of collapsed buildings.
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He added that all trapped and injured women remained under the stones and waited for women from other villages to reach and dig them.
“It seemed to me that women were invisible,” Nyt Muhazeb quoted, who said, who added, “Men and children were treated first, but women sat separately and waited for care.”
According to NYT, rescue workers pulled dead women out of their clothes to avoid contact with the skin. Even some women had to rely on foreigners from neighboring villages to save them.
Not only the rescue teams arrived late, several women were ignored or not preferred for medical care.
More than 2,200 people died and, according to data issued by the Afghan government, 3,600 others were injured in a six -shaped earthquake, which flattened countless villages and villages.
What does the UN say:
The reaction of the authorities embodied the double standards facing women and girls in Afghanistan. “Women and girls again force the onslaught of this disaster, so we have to ensure that their needs are the core of reaction and recovery,” the United Nations Afghanistan Susan Ferguson said.
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The UN and Human Rights organization, which expresses concerns about the gender policies of the Taliban, emphasized the need to plan a response to disaster sensitive to gender and politicians that ensure equal access to all individuals.
According to NYT report, which quoted more than half a dozen doctors, rescue workers and women in the areas affected by the earthquake that the Taliban did not disclose gender disintegration and women faced especially hard suffering.
The strict cultural and religious norms of the Taliban report that she can only touch her relative man – her father, brother, husband or son -. While women must not touch men outside their family.
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