A senior Taliban official who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls and women's education in Afghanistan appears to have been forced to flee the country amid fears of arrest.
Cases of forced marriages have been worsening in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the country following the withdrawal of US-led NATO forces in 2021, with many women being forced to be married even when the Taliban supposedly banned forced marriages just months after seizing power.
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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.
