Five years of Taliban rule: Afghan women face deepening repression

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: In Afghanistan, 5 years of Taliban rule © reuters 02:02 Issued on: 15/08/2026 - 10:49 Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghan women face sweeping restrictions on education, work, movement and public life, with the UN describing Afghanistan as the world’s worst country for women’s rights. As international aid funding falls, the UN is urging donors not to abandon programmes supporting Afghan women, warning that many organisations could be forced to close. Keywords for this article FRANCE 24 in Afghanistan Afghanistan