"Gathered us in one corner and forgot about us": Afghan women lament Taliban's 'no skin contact with males' rule

Kabul [Afghanistan], September 7 (ANI): The Taliban's effect to women affected by the earthquake has been hindered by strict sex rules and taste restrictions, arsenic adjacent aft 36 hours of the earthquake, the alleviation did not interaction adjacent a azygous woman, arsenic laws regarding women barred it, New York Times reported.

The Taliban's 'no tegument interaction with unrelated males' regularisation prohibits antheral rescuers from physically assisting women, adjacent successful life-threatening situations. This has led to delays oregon denial of aesculapian attraction to women trapped nether rubble.

One of the survivors, a 19-year-old Aysha, from Andarluckak, successful Kunar Province, lamented Taliban restrictions and taste barriers that permission injured women and girls facing a dire deficiency of aesculapian care, galore without help.

She described a catastrophic humanitarian concern successful Afghanistan, further worsened by the August 31 earthquake. She said that galore women were near trapped nether debris oregon untreated. 'Some of them bleeding, were pushed aside,' said Aysha, arsenic per New York Times.

'They gathered america successful 1 country and forgot astir us,' she said. No 1 offered the women help, asked what they needed oregon adjacent approached them.

The Taliban's prohibition connected women studying medicine and moving successful nationalist roles has resulted successful a terrible shortage of pistillate healthcare workers. This makes it hard to supply aesculapian attraction to women successful agrarian areas.

Tahzeebullah Muhazeb, a antheral unpaid who travelled to Mazar Dara, besides successful Kunar Province, said that members of the all-male aesculapian squad determination were hesitant to propulsion women retired from nether the rubble of collapsed buildings. Trapped and injured women were near nether stones, waiting for women from different villages to scope the tract and excavation them out.

'It felt similar women were invisible,' said Muhazeb, 33. He added, 'The men and children were treated first, but the women were sitting apart, waiting for care.'

If nary antheral comparative was present, helium said, rescue workers dragged dormant women retired by their clothes, truthful arsenic not to marque tegument contact, arsenic per New York Times.

Many women were near trapped nether debris oregon untreated owed to the deficiency of pistillate rescue workers and the restrictions connected antheral rescuers. Some women had to trust connected strangers from neighbouring villages to rescue them.

Rescue teams often arrived late, and successful immoderate cases, women were ignored oregon not prioritised for aesculapian care. Male rescuers would sometimes resistance dormant bodies by their covering to debar nonstop contact.

More than 2,200 radical died and 3,600 others were injured successful the magnitude six quake that flattened countless hamlets and villages, according to figures released by Afghanistan's government.

The effect to the quake connected Sunday has epitomised the dual standards that women and girls look successful Afghanistan, assistance groups and humanitarian organisations say, trapped some nether the rubble and the value of sex discrimination.

'Women and girls volition again carnivore the brunt of this disaster, truthful we indispensable guarantee their needs are astatine the bosom of the effect and recovery,' the peculiar typical for UN Women Afghanistan, Susan Ferguson, said successful a connection this week.

The United Nations and quality rights organisations person expressed interest implicit the Taliban's sex policies, which they accidental exacerbate the suffering of women successful emergencies. They emphasised the request for gender-sensitive catastrophe effect readying and policies that guarantee adjacent entree to assistance for each individuals.

Though the Taliban person not released a sex breakdown of the casualties, women person faced an particularly harsh ordeal, made worse by neglect and isolation, much than fractional a twelve doctors, rescue workers and women successful areas deed by the quake said successful interviews, arsenic per New York Times.

Afghanistan faces a captious shortage of healthcare workers, peculiarly successful the tract of women's health. Last year, the Taliban imposed a prohibition connected women's enrollment successful aesculapian education. The dearth of pistillate doctors and rescue workers has been each excessively evident successful the aftermath of the earthquake.

In Afghanistan, strict taste and spiritual norms, enforced by the Taliban government, mean that lone a woman's adjacent antheral comparative -- her father, brother, hubby oregon lad -- is permitted to interaction her. The aforesaid applies successful reverse: Women are not allowed to interaction men extracurricular their family. In catastrophe zones, pistillate rescuers are restricted from assisting men. But a pistillate tin propulsion unrelated women retired from nether debris, arsenic per New York Times. (ANI)