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Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, there has been a disturbing surge in the number of women taking their own lives or attempting to do so, data collected from public hospitals and mental health clinics across a third of Afghanistan’s provinces shows.
Report: ‘Disturbing Surge’ in Afghan Female Suicides, Attempted Suicides
Report: ‘Disturbing Surge’ in Afghan Female Suicides, Attempted Suicides
‘We are witnessing a moment where growing numbers of women and girls see death as preferable to living under the current circumstances,’ a UN official has been quoted as saying
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Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, there has been a disturbing surge in the number of women taking their own lives or attempting to do so, data collected from public hospitals and mental health clinics across a third of Afghanistan’s provinces shows.
‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan
Unofficial figures point to a mental health crisis amid severe restrictions on Afghan women’s lives
www.theguardian.com