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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

Hundreds of cases of femicide recorded in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover are ‘tip of the iceberg’

A woman in a burqa
The analysis found 840 women and girls had been subject to gender-based violence between January 2022 and June 2024. Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images

The 300-plus reported cases of Afghan women being killed by men since the Taliban seized power are just “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to the true scale of gender-based violence in Afghanistan, according to new data analysis.

Open-source investigators at the Centre of Information Resilience’s Afghan Witness project combed through social media and news sites to record 332 reported cases of femicide since the Taliban took Kabul on 15 August 2021.

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