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Afghan women wait to receive cash at a money distribution point organized by the World Food Program, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, said Amnesty International in a new report Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The London-based watchdog criticized Taliban authorities saying that since Taliban took control of the country in August 2021, they have violated women’s and girls’ rights to education, work and free movement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

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Amnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is 'suffocating' women
July 27, 2022 11:05 a.m.

Amnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is 'suffocating' women

The report said rates of child, early and forced marriage in Afghanistan are surging under Taliban rule