‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan
‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/28/despair-is-settling-in-female-suicides-on-rise-in-talibans-afghanistan
Unofficial figures point to a mental health crisis amid severe restrictions on Afghan women’s lives
First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.
“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”