Essay: The Taliban’s harsh new ‘vice and virtue’ laws are a throwback to the oppression of the 1990s – especially for the women of Afghanistan
KAMBAIZ RAFI, of Durham University, looks at the context surrounding the recent announcement of new “vice and virtue” laws targeting women in Afghanistan…
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 […]
The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public
Islamabad, Pakistan AP Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the Supreme Leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue. The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. The Taliban had […]