Taliban Morality Law Targets Women, Increasingly Isolating Afghanistan

The UN rights chief on Monday expressed “disgust” over the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan's latest announcement of “so-called moral laws,” which silence women or order them to cover their faces and bodies in public. Volker Türk told a UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva that the new law was implemented alongside a ban on Afghan girls attending secondary school, barring them from accessing university education, and severely limiting women's access to public life and employment opportunities. “I shudder to think what will happen next to the women and girls of Afghanistan. Such repressive control over half the population in this country is not seen in any other country today,” said the UN Human Rights Commissioner. Türk slammed the morality law as outrageous and a “systematic gender persecution.” She warned that the tightening of restrictions on women “pushes Afghanistan further down the path of isolation, suffering and hardship.” It would also jeopardize the country’s future by “massively hampering its development,” she added. Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, also spoke at the event Monday, telling participants at the Geneva meeting that the Taliban had recently barred him from visiting the country to conduct an assessment …

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