{"id":38029,"date":"2025-12-03T20:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=38029"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:04:02","slug":"united-nations-women-and-girls-with-disabilities-in-afghanistan-face-severe-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/38029\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations: Women and girls with disabilities in Afghanistan face severe discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Susan Ferguson, the UN Women Country Representative for Afghanistan, says that women and girls with disabilities in Afghanistan face &#8216;severe discrimination&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, she said: They face the greatest obstacles to accessing the services and support they need to live with dignity.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN Women stated in a press release that an estimate shows that approximately one out of every six women in Afghanistan has a severe disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statement, the increased risk of gender-based violence and difficulties in accessing health services and humanitarian aid have contributed to the rise in the number of women with disabilities in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN Women emphasized that the psychological impacts arising from the Taliban&#8217;s restrictions have also played a role in this matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the organization, the severe restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women&#8217;s work, education, and movement have created an acute mental health crisis for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A survey conducted in 2025 with the participation of over 2,000 women in Afghanistan showed that three-quarters of the women described their mental health status as &#8216;bad&#8217; or &#8216;very bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ferguson said: They (Afghan women and girls)&#8230; despite all the obstacles, seize every opportunity to learn and take the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many women and girls with disabilities face difficulties in reaching places where humanitarian aid is distributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN Women called for support for women and girls with disabilities in Afghanistan and stated that more women should work in aid organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Ferguson, the UN Women Country Representative for Afghanistan, says that women and girls with disabilities in Afghanistan face &#8216;severe discrimination&#8217;. On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, she said: They face the greatest obstacles to accessing the services and support they need to live with dignity.&#8217; UN Women stated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":38030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52],"tags":[1238,2335,5719,5706,5800,5803,5801,5802,5793,5799],"class_list":["post-38029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-women","tag-afghanistan","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv","tag-discrimination","tag-international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities","tag-talibans-restrictions","tag-un-women","tag-united-nations","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38031,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029\/revisions\/38031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}