{"id":24820,"date":"2026-10-27T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/un-security-council-afghan-women-special-session\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:15:18","slug":"un-security-council-afghan-women-special-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/un-security-council-afghan-women-special-session\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council to Hold Special Session on Afghan Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting in New York on Tuesday, Nov. 5, to examine the situation of women in Afghanistan and other war-torn regions, sexual violence against women during conflict, and their declining participation in peace processes.<\/p>\n<p>At the session, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, will speak, along with a representative from Afghan civil society.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United Nations, the main topics of the meeting will include rising sexual violence during wars, threats against women activists, and cuts in funding for women&#8217;s rights organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes as women and girls in Afghanistan continue to face severe restrictions on education and employment, the result of Taliban administration policies in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has repeatedly stressed the importance of fair participation by women in political decision-making and peace processes, but despite this, women&#8217;s share in these areas has sharply declined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Security Council to review Afghan women\u2019s rights, sexual violence in conflict, and women\u2019s shrinking role in peace talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}