International Federation of the Red Cross, 14 October 2023
Not exactly media, but the IFCR quotes AAN research in its situation overview for its emergency appeal:
A major effect of decades of conflict is the high number of widows and female headed households. While there are currently no official statistics, the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) estimates, in an article issued in June 2023, that there are at least two million widows in Afghanistan.
https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-asia-pacific-humanitarian-crisis-revised-emergency-appeal-no-mdraf007-revision-ndeg-6
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This article was last updated on 22 Oct 2023
