New vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UN
laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups.
“Whenever an adult woman leaves her home out of necessity, she is obliged to conceal her voice, face, and body,” the new laws state. Women or girls who fail to comply can be detained and punished in a manner deemed appropriate by Taliban officials charged with upholding the new laws., the special UN’s representative for Afghanistan, who has said they extend the “intolerable restrictions” on the rights of women and girls already imposed by the
“From a legal standpoint this document faces serious issues,” he said. “It contradicts the fundamental principles of Islam the promotion of virtue has never been defined through force, coercion, or tyranny.
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