The Taliban’s supreme leader issued a new order where new residential buildings in Afghanistan are constructed without windows looking onto "places usually used by women,” adding that existing windows with such views should be blocked to prevent "obscene acts.”
In the latest crackdown by the Taliban on women’s rights, Afghanistan issued a decree barring women from training to become nurses and midwives, a move that sparked condemnation across the world and has been described as “an outrageous act of ignorance” by human rights organizations and activists.
The Taliban carried out a shocking public execution of a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium in eastern Afghanistan, marking the sixth public execution carried out in the country after the Taliban seized power after the departure of US and NATO forces in 2021.
The Taliban has banned women in Afghanistan from allowing their voices to be heard by other women, further intensifying its repressive policies against Afghan women’s rights and raising concerns among human rights activists that such new laws could isolate them even further, preventing them from engaging in conversation or forming support networks.
The Taliban announced on October 14th that they would implement a new law that would ban news media and journalists in Afghanistan from taking and publishing any image of all living beings.
A group of British Islamist journalists working for a popular Muslim news website expressed their admiration for the Taliban during a podcast episode where they marked the third anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from the country.
The United Nations and various human rights groups and activists strongly condemned a new measure by the Taliban regime to further suppress women’s rights in Afghanistan after it introduced a new, draconian law forbidding women from showing their faces or even speaking when outside of their homes.
A shocking new research on the prevalence of violence against women in Afghanistan reveals that the cases of more than 300 women being killed by men since the Taliban took over in 2021 following the withdrawal of the US-led military coalition from the country are just the “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to the true scale of gender-based violence in Afghanistan.
Beauty salons, which once provided Afghan women with safe space following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 after American-led coalition forces pulled out of the country, were outlawed since 2023, forcing many beauticians and their clients underground.
