{"id":233295,"date":"2025-10-18T06:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:35:15","slug":"when-the-taliban-shut-down-the-internet-women-lost-their-lifeline-to-aid-education-and-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233295\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Taliban shut down the Internet, women lost their lifeline to aid,\u00a0education\u00a0and each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Afghanistan, waves\u00a0of directives banning women from most jobs and\u00a0restricting\u00a0their movement without a male guardian have\u00a0systematically pushed\u00a0them\u00a0out of public life.<\/p>\n<p>For many women entrepreneurs, the Internet\u00a0offers\u00a0a\u00a0rare space to work, build\u00a0small\u00a0businesses, and\u00a0sell\u00a0their products\u00a0\u2013 such as\u00a0nuts, spices, handicrafts,\u00a0clothes\u00a0and artworks \u2013\u00a0to customers within\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0and\u00a0overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no space for us to work outside our homes,\u201d explained\u00a0business owner\u00a0Sama*,\u00a0from\u00a0Parwan\u00a0in eastern Afghanistan.\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s also no local market where we can display and sell our products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the support of UN Women,\u00a0Sama\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacific.unwomen.org\/en\/stories\/news\/2025\/07\/against-the-odds-afghan-women-are-building-livelihoods-and-resilience\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">built an online shop<\/a>\u00a0selling knitted bags,\u00a0purses and jewelry. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough my online shop, I became well known,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m earning money, solving my financial problems, and becoming self-sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the blackout struck, women like Sama lost their only source of income overnight \u2013 a\u00a0warning \u00a0that for many Afghan women, connectivity is not a luxury, but a lifeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Afghanistan, waves\u00a0of directives banning women from most jobs and\u00a0restricting\u00a0their movement without a male guardian have\u00a0systematically pushed\u00a0them\u00a0out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-233295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}