{"id":57882,"date":"2023-08-28T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/28\/despair-is-settling-in-female-suicides-on-rise-in-talibans-afghanistan"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T09:00:32","slug":"despair-is-settling-in-female-suicides-on-rise-in-talibans-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57882","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Despair is settling in\u2019: female suicides on rise in Taliban\u2019s Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial figures point to a mental health crisis amid severe restrictions on Afghan women\u2019s lives<\/p>\n<p>First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban\u2019s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,\u201d said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. \u201cI chose the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/28\/despair-is-settling-in-female-suicides-on-rise-in-talibans-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial figures point to a mental health crisis amid severe restrictions on Afghan women\u2019s livesFirst, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban\u2019s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin ad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3913,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/57882","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\/3913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57883,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57882\/revisions\/57883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}