{"id":87737,"date":"2026-04-15T07:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87737"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:58:22","slug":"afghan-asylum-approvals-fall-as-uk-denies-women-fleeing-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/afghan-asylum-approvals-fall-as-uk-denies-women-fleeing-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan asylum approvals fall as UK denies women fleeing Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA20SrUQ.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Afghan primary school girls attend their class at a school in Kandahar on September 7, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/afghan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Afghan<\/a>\u00a0women have been refused\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/asylum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">asylum<\/a>\u00a0in the UK in the past year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/asylum-immigration-small-boat-data-home-office-b2927923.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">amid plummeting grant rates,<\/a> new analysis shows.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/afghan-asylum-approvals-fall-as-uk-denies-women-fleeing-taliban\/ar-AA20ScXg?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69df40f175204eefa76ba6d33a5c4e97&amp;ei=108\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hundreds of\u00a0Afghan\u00a0women have been refused\u00a0asylum\u00a0in the UK in the past year\u00a0amid plummeting grant rates, new analysis shows.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Afghan-nursing-ban.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87738,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87737\/revisions\/87738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}