New Taliban Laws Turn Women Into ‘Faceless Shadows’: UN Human Rights Chief

Published on August 27, 2024

United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk has urged the Taliban to repeal several laws passed last week, saying that they reduce women in Afghanistan to “faceless, voiceless shadows.” The laws, described by the Taliban as discouraging vice and promoting virtue, ban women’s voices and faces in public. They were implemented on Aug. 22, after they were approved by Afghanistan’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. In a press briefing on Tuesday, Türk said the laws cemented “policies that completely erase women’s presence in public, silencing their voices and depriving them of their individual autonomy, effectively attempting to render them into faceless, voiceless shadows.”...

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