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KABUL — A lack of security in significant portions of Afghanistan has hindered election preparations and disproportionately affected Afghan women, a report co-authored by the U.N. mission in the country said Sunday.
Militant violence has risen in the past three years, and a record number of U.S. and NATO troops are in the country to combat it. Afghans will vote for president and provincial councils in a nationwide election Aug. 20, which the Taliban has vowed to disrupt.
The report noted that 39 percent of Afghans who registered for the election in 2008 or 2009 are women.
