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Women's Day
- UN warns of aid cuts over Taliban crackdown on women's rightsWorld ·
March 8, 2023 · 10:11 PM UTC The U.N. envoy in Afghanistan warned on Wednesday that a Taliban administration crackdown on women's rights is likely to lead to a drop in aid and development funding in the country, where women fear being cut from public life as much as violent death.