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IEA curbs on women may amount to femicide: UN experts

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ATLANTA (Pajhwok): The caretaker government’s restrictions on Afghan women and girls may amount to femicide if they are not reversed, a team of United Nations experts has warned.

Since it seized power in August 2021, the IEA has barred women from most jobs and workplaces and girls cannot go to school beyond the sixth grade.

Women are also banned from public spaces and must cover themselves from head to toe outside the home.

In a statement on Friday, the UN experts accused the caretaker government of “most extreme forms of misogyny” and said there could be multiple preventable deaths . . .

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