{"id":27669,"date":"2024-08-26T18:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/?p=27669"},"modified":"2024-09-25T01:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:43:35","slug":"frightening-taliban-law-bans-women-from-speaking-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/frightening-taliban-law-bans-women-from-speaking-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Frightening\u2019 Taliban law bans women from speaking in public"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Annie Kelly and Zahra Joya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban published a host of new \u201cvice and virtue\u201d laws last week, approved by their supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, which state that women must completely veil their bodies \u2013 including their faces \u2013 in thick clothing at all times in public to avoid leading men into temptation and vice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women\u2019s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions. Women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhenever an adult woman leaves her home out of necessity, she is obliged to conceal her voice, face, and body,\u201d the new laws state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men will also be required to cover their bodies from their navels to their knees when they are outside their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From now on, Afghan women are also not allowed to look directly at men they are not related to by blood or marriage, and taxi drivers will be punished if they agree to drive a woman who is without a suitable male escort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restrictions have been condemned by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/roza-otunbayeva\">Roza Otunbayeva<\/a>, the special UN\u2019s representative for Afghanistan, who has said they extend the \u201cintolerable restrictions\u201d on the rights of women and girls already imposed by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/taliban-declares-war-is-over-in-afghanistan-as-us-led-forces-exit-kabul\">Taliban since they took power in August 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a distressing vision for Afghanistan\u2019s future, where moral inspectors have discretionary powers to threaten and detain anyone based on broad and sometimes vague lists of infractions,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unama.unmissions.org\/statement-special-representative-secretary-general-and-head-unama-0\">she said in a statement on Sunday<\/a>. \u201cIt extends the already intolerable restrictions on the rights of Afghan women and girls, with even the sound of a female voice outside the home apparently deemed a moral violation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to Rukhshana Media, Mir Abdul Wahid Sadat, the president of the Afghan Lawyers Association, said that the new laws contradicted Afghanistan\u2019s domestic and international legal obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom a legal standpoint this document faces serious issues,\u201d he said. \u201cIt contradicts the fundamental principles of Islam [where] the promotion of virtue has never been defined through force, coercion, or tyranny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis document not only violates Afghanistan\u2019s domestic laws but also broadly contravenes all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Taliban government does not have any sort of legitimacy and these new edicts designed to further erase and suppress woman are an indication of their hatred towards women,\u201d says Fawzia Koofi, an Afghan human rights activist who was the first woman vice-president of the Afghan parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen they say women cannot speak in public as they regard women\u2019s voices as a form of intimacy it is incredibly frightening yet the whole world acts like this is normal. There have been very few reactions of comments to what is happening and the Taliban are emboldened by this indifference. It is not only women but all human beings they are targeting. They must be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shukria Barakzai, a former Afghan parliamentarian who was Afghanistan\u2019s ambassador to Norway, agreed the international community\u2019s silence on the Taliban\u2019s oppression of Afghanistan\u2019s 14 million women and girls had played its part in the criminalisation of women\u2019s bodies and voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is concerning that international organisations, particularly the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/unitednations\">United Nations<\/a>&nbsp;and the European Union, instead of standing against these inhumane practices, are trying to normalise relations with the Taliban,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are, in a way, whitewashing this group, disregarding the fact that the Taliban are committing widespread human rights violations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the three years since seizing power from the US-backed government, the Taliban have imposed what human rights groups are calling a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2024\/06\/gender-apartheid-must-be-recognized-international-law\/#:~:text=The%20concept%20of%20apartheid%20on,the%20Taliban%20in%20the%201990s.\">\u201cgender apartheid\u201d<\/a>, excluding women and girls from almost every aspect of public life and denying them access to the justice system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to the new \u201cvice and virtue\u201d laws, women and girls were already blocked from attending secondary school; banned from almost every form of paid employment; prevented from walking in public parks, attending gyms or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/01\/afghanistan-taliban-repression-women-beauticians-secret-salons-hair-makeup\">beauty salons<\/a>; and told to comply with a strict dress code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the Taliban also announced the reintroduction of the public flogging and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/mar\/28\/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror\">stoning of women for adultery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in Partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/26\/taliban-bar-on-afghan-women-speaking-in-public-un-afghanistan\">the\u00a0Guardian<\/a>*.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New\u00a0Taliban\u00a0laws 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[966,9581,902,896],"tags":[9342,9340],"class_list":["post-27669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en","category-our-work-en","category-reports-en","category-uncategorized-en","tag-speaking-in-public","tag-taliban-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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