The Taliban has enforced strict laws requiring Afghan women to cover their entire bodies, including their faces, in public. Women’s voices are deemed “intimate,” effectively banning them from singing, reciting poetry, or reading aloud, silencing their presence in public and social settings. Women are also prohibited from looking at men who are not close relatives by blood or marriage.
These regulations, outlined in a 114-page document by the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, ban images of living beings, prohibit music, and restrict women from traveling alone. Men and women who are not related cannot mix, further isolating women from public life. International human rights organizations have raised alarms over these laws, highlighting the growing climate of fear and systematic dismantling of women’s rights in Afghanistan.
News via: Times of India
