First Person: Heartbroken but hopeful, under Taliban rule in Afghanistan | UN News
Zarina* is a young Afghan woman entrepreneur. Her drive for innovating, and passion for baking made her one of Afghanistan’s youngest entrepreneurs. Her business is still running, but her clients are scarce and her plans for expansion across the country had to be shut down.
The agency’s in-country strategy pivots around investing in women—from scaling up support for women survivors of violence in provinces where they have never been before, to supporting women humanitarian workers in the delivery of essential services and providing seed capital to women-led businesses.
The goal of rebuilding the Afghan women’s movement remains central to the agency’s work.
Find out more about UN Women's work in Afghanistan, and the situation for women in the country, one year on from the Taliban takeover, here.
