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Kabul: The United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned that deepening restrictions on women in Afghanistan have led women-run businesses on the “verge of collapse”.
UNHCR in a report has highlighted that a considerable number of women’s business centers have lost their clients and ceased operations throughout the country.
According to International Labor Organization (ILO) report, following since August 2021, the number of women-run businesses has declined by a quarter in Afghanistan.
According to an ILO report, due to the deepening restriction on women, Afghanistan’s national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the past two years declined between 30-35 percent.
Caroline Gluck, UNHCR spokesperson, and the author the report has met a women’s business center in western Herat provinces, said the center is turned into a silent shop with few clients to buy handicrafts.
According to Mrs. Gluck, the businesswomen in this center have lost their customers and their income has decreased by 50%.
On December 24, the Taliban ordered non-government aid organizations (NGOs) to suspend female employees from work; they have also restricted university education for women and girls.
It has been more than 500 days that girls in Afghanistan deprived of education above the primary level.
