{"id":1902,"date":"2026-10-03T07:51:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:51:55","slug":"afghan-women-and-girls-make-up-60-percent-of-those-facing-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/03\/afghan-women-and-girls-make-up-60-percent-of-those-facing-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Women and Girls Make Up 60 Percent of Those Facing Food Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bareen Media &#8211;<\/strong> Women and girls account for 60 percent of people facing food insecurity in Afghanistan, according to new figures presented by UN Women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency said that, amid worsening regional tensions, an additional 11.7 million women and girls in 28 countries could face food insecurity by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Afghanistan, around 95 percent of women have no independent income or formal participation in the labor market, while more than 80 percent of employed women work in vulnerable jobs, according to the figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UN Women said rising energy, fertilizer, and transportation costs, along with higher food prices, are increasing pressure on women and girls already facing economic and humanitarian challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bareen Media &#8211; Women and girls account for 60 percent of people facing food insecurity in Afghanistan, according to new figures presented by UN Women. The agency said that, amid worsening regional tensions, an additional 11.7 million women and girls in 28 countries could face food insecurity by the end of 2026. In Afghanistan, around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,83,25],"tags":[157,121,82,101],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-humanitarian","category-women","tag-afghan-girls","tag-afghan-women","tag-human-rights","tag-humanitarian-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}