Future projections for Afghan women and girls: “We hope we will not be left alone to fight for our rights”

This two-page brief summarizes the issue, what Afghan women are saying, why it matters, and what Afghan women want the international community to do.

A core element of the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda is putting women at the centre of national and international decision-making processes. In Afghanistan, UN Women has been operationalizing the WPS agenda by facilitating multiple tracks of dialogues for the international community with a range of Afghan women to ensure their voices and policy perspectives on the future of Afghanistan and international policymaking are heard.

The analysis presented in this document is based on:

• UN Women, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)'s quarterly consultations with diverse Afghan women since August 2022. In January 2024, consultations reached over 700 Afghan women across all of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.
• UN Women launched a submissions process on 3 February 2024 to gather the views of Afghan women for upcoming international policymaking, including discussions on the Special Coordinator’s independent assessment and UN Security Council resolution 2721 (2023). Between 3-11 February 2024, 75 submissions were processed.
• Statistical modelling was undertaken according to figures from the UN Sustainable Development Goals database. It uses global population-level indicators and interprets them within a framework of cross-country linear regression modelling.