India, May 14 -- Afghanistan's crisis under Taliban rule is more than a women's rights issue; it is a full-scale humanitarian disaster.

Systematic exclusion of women from work, education, health care and aid delivery is dismantling institutions, eroding services and deepening poverty.

This gender apartheid threatens the survival of vulnerable families and risks permanently reshaping Afghan society and humanitarian systems.

Where is one of worst places to be a woman? Afghanistan.

That's what most people think when it comes to the topic of the women's rights crisis under the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan. But this only tells part of the story.

Focusing on the word "rights" hides something more serious underneath: how people live and su...