Building a healthier world by women and for women is key to achieving gender equality
The problem is invisible because there is often no data gathered by governments, no training for medical personnel around this issue, and no budgets allocated to prevent obstetric violence. By asserting dominance and seeking to reinforce patriarchal power through controlling women’s bodies and identities, the Taliban act as a gendered moral authority in Afghanistan, seeking to push women and girls ever further out of public life. This is part of a larger system Afghan women’s rights defenders and United Nations experts call “gender apartheid.” Women are forced indoors by being...