{"id":45388,"date":"2022-06-13T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/13\/we-exist-but-it-is-not-a-life-afghan-women-face-bleak-prospects-under-taliban"},"modified":"2022-06-13T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:00:07","slug":"we-exist-but-it-is-not-a-life-afghan-women-face-bleak-prospects-under-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45388","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We exist but it is not a life\u2019: Afghan women face bleak prospects under Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Kabul, women talk about losing their jobs and being forced to wear a burqa, while others fear starvation<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in a classroom in district 17 on the north-western outskirts of Kabul, four young women from a group dedicated to helping children displaced by war pulled out tissues from a box and silently wiped away tears.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation had turned to the youngest of the women\u2019s prospects in light of the Taliban\u2019s return to power in August last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/13\/we-exist-but-it-is-not-a-life-afghan-women-face-bleak-prospects-under-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kabul, women talk about losing their jobs and being forced to wear a burqa, while others fear starvationSitting in a classroom in district 17 on the north-western outskirts of Kabul, four young women from a group dedicated to helping children displa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,79,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45389,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388\/revisions\/45389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}