{"id":3788,"date":"2025-12-21T07:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/21\/undp-small-businesses-economic-lifeline-afghan-women\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:15:17","slug":"undp-small-businesses-economic-lifeline-afghan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/21\/undp-small-businesses-economic-lifeline-afghan-women\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDP: Small Businesses Are the Only Livelihood for Afghan Women Amid Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced that under the current conditions in Afghanistan, small businesses are practically the only remaining economic avenue for Afghan women.<\/p>\n<p>According to information released by UNDP Afghanistan, the organization has so far supported over 89,000 small enterprises across the country, 91% of which are managed by women. These initiatives have created more than 439,000 job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>These figures come amid a backdrop where, following the Taliban&#8217;s takeover, Afghan women face extensive restrictions on access to work, education, and social activities, with many formal employment avenues closed to them.<\/p>\n<p>International organizations have repeatedly warned that the continuation of these restrictions not only violates the fundamental rights of women but also poses serious long-term damage to Afghanistan&#8217;s economy\u2014calling for an urgent reconsideration of the Taliban administration&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDP reports small businesses are the main economic lifeline for Afghan women amid Taliban restrictions on work and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","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=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}