Afghan Women Die Needlessly After Natural Disasters Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

KABUL, Sep 24 2025 (IPS) - In normal times, women in Afghanistan face dire living conditions relative to their counterparts in other parts of the world, given the iron grip of Taliban repression. However, the powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar, and Laghman at the end of August was out of the ordinary. https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/afghan-women-die-needlessly-after-natural-disasters/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UN_at_a_Mixed_Legacy_of_Highs_and_Lows_An_Overdose_of_Renewables_New_Energy_Risk_in_Brazil_and_more Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service. The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons