Women’s rights in Afghanistan under Taliban Regime amid Indian influence: A Way Forward (2016 – 2022)

Abstract

The study analyzes empirically how the Taliban's restrictions on women's rights are exacerbating the humanitarian calamity in Afghanistan caused by the abrupt cessation of most Western help following the Taliban takeover in August 2021. This research highlights the difficulties to Afghan women's rights under the Taliban and investigates the women's rights abuses in Afghanistan's ongoing situation, which has made women's lives difficult and intolerable. Further, the study also shows the women rights in Afghanistan under Indian influence. The social exclusion theory served as a conceptual framework for the study as well as an analytical tool for data analysis. This research is exploratory and qualitative in character. The report identifies a number of issues that undermine women's rights in Afghan society, including patriarchal society, religious practices inside the state, Sharia laws, socioeconomic inequality, and long-held traditional cultural ideas. This report also highlights the Taliban's approach to women and its consequences on women's lives.