{"id":70745,"date":"2025-04-03T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/apr\/03\/i-begged-them-my-daughter-was-dying-how-taliban-male-escort-rules-are-killing-mothers-and-babies"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T07:00:26","slug":"i-begged-them-my-daughter-was-dying-how-taliban-male-escort-rules-are-killing-mothers-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70745","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I begged them, my daughter was dying\u2019: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to soaring mortality rates, say experts<\/p>\n<p>It was the middle of the night when Zarin Gul realised that her daughter Nasrin had to get to the hospital as soon as possible. Her daughter\u2019s husband was away working in Iran and the two women were alone with Nasrin\u2019s seven children when Nasrin, heavily pregnant with her eighth child, began experiencing severe pains.<\/p>\n<p>Gul helped Nasrin into a rickshaw and they set off into the night. Holding her daughter\u2019s hand as the rickshaw jolted over the dirt road, Gul says she prayed they would not encounter a Taliban checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/apr\/03\/i-begged-them-my-daughter-was-dying-how-taliban-male-escort-rules-are-killing-mothers-and-babies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to soaring mortality rates, say expertsIt was the middle of the night when Zarin Gul realised that her daughter Nasrin had to get to the hospital &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4674,"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":[46,59,566,53,86,79,61,3282,1792,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-human-rights","category-law","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women-under-the-taliban","category-womens-health","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\/70745","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\/4674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70746,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70745\/revisions\/70746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}