Taliban vice and virtue laws provide “distressing vision” for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy

Islamabad, Pakistan AP The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top UN official warned Sunday. Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the UN mission in the country, said the laws extend the “ already intolerable restrictions ” on […]
Afghan broadcaster airs rare all-female panel to discuss rights on Women’s Day

Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters Afghan broadcaster Tolo News on Wednesday aired an all-female panel in its studio with an audience of women to mark International Women’s Day, a rare broadcast since the Taliban took over and many female journalists left the profession or started working off-air. A survey by Reporters Without Borders last year found that […]