They have banned them from a life of helping others. I have never been to Afghanistan, but I have worked in 25 countries around the world. No country can escape poverty if they oppress their women and girls. No country can be competitive in the 21st century if they refuse to invest in and support the dreams and aspirations of their girls and women. Unable to work, many have been reduced to begging for food.
Prostitution is reported to be increasing.
And rape, forced marriages, forced prostitution and other forms of abuse have become commonplace. Resistance has been met with savage beatings, mutilations, abductions and murder. Men who have tried to help women or widows have been beaten on the streets by marauding mobs of misogynists. They have attacked, maimed and sometimes killed men whose crime was to try to feed widows from the Afghan civil war. The Taliban claims that they have rooted their war against women in the Koran.