Taliban’s Relentless Assault on Afghan Women’s Bodies, Autonomy

Photo caption: A 15-year-old girl, barred from attending secondary school since 2021, reads a notebook in Afghanistan, March 20, 2024. © 2024 Fariba Akbari / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Photo. Article by Sahar Fetrat. Human Rights Watch – August 27, 2024. 

Last week, the Taliban in Afghanistan published outrageous new laws on “vice and virtue” that require women to completely cover their bodies, including their faces, in public at all times. In issuing the law, the Taliban claimed that women’s voices could lead to vice, […]

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