Crisis in Afghanistan: 80% of people fleeing are women and children

Since May alone, 250,000 people have fled Afghanistan. And, since the beginning of the year, it is estimated that they are 3.3 million displaced. Of these, the estimate indicates that 80% are women and children. Those who leave do so for fear that taliban have again an extreme interpretation of Islam.

The Taliban had already been in power for five years, before The invaded United States the country in 2001. At that time, the Taliban they forbade the education of girls, the work of women or that women can travel alone. They even specified public executions, thieves’ hands were cut off and stones were thrown at women accused of infidelity.