{"id":47442,"date":"2022-08-14T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/14\/life-for-afghan-women-one-year-after-the-taliban-took-power"},"modified":"2022-08-14T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T07:00:03","slug":"i-was-a-policewoman-now-i-beg-in-the-street-life-for-afghan-women-one-year-after-the-taliban-took-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47442","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was a policewoman. Now I beg in the street\u2019: life for Afghan women one year after the Taliban took power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students, mothers, widows, workers and artists explain how their world has altered under \u2018gender apartheid\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">Taliban swept through Afghanistan<\/a>, taking control of the country amid the chaos of the US and UK troop withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Now women\u2019s lives across the country have been fundamentally changed, their rights curtailed and freedoms restricted. Campaigners have called the Taliban\u2019s orders to deny women education, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/18\/send-us-a-man-to-do-your-job-so-we-can-sack-you-taliban-tell-female-officials\">remove them from their jobs<\/a> and force them back under the veil a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/10\/the-guardian-view-on-afghan-women-the-taliban-turn-the-screws\">gender apartheid<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/14\/life-for-afghan-women-one-year-after-the-taliban-took-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students, mothers, widows, workers and artists explain how their world has altered under \u2018gender apartheid\u2019One year ago, the Taliban swept through Afghanistan, taking control of the country amid the chaos of the US and UK troop withdrawal.Now women\u2019s l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2600,"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":[46,59,61,44,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/47442","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\/2600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47443,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47442\/revisions\/47443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}