Analysts speculated that worldwide stress, and the necessity for legitimacy and financial help would possibly lead the group to undertake a extra accommodating method, notably concerning human rights, governance, and ladies‘s rights.
Nonetheless, these hopes have largely been dashed because the Taliban has reverted to a lot of its earlier repressive insurance policies particularly in terms of ladies who’ve been diminished to mere shadows in their very own nation.
Taliban’s anti-women tendencies began to return to the forefront mere days after recapturing Kabul in August 2021.
Since then, dozens of regulation and edicts have been handed which have successfully eliminated ladies’s presence within the public.
Morality regulation
The newest blow to ladies’s rights got here in August this yr — simply days after the Taliban marked the third yr of taking energy — when Afghanistan’s ministry for Selling Advantage and Stopping Vice handed a draconian morality regulation.
Issued on August 21, the brand new regulation orders ladies to cowl their our bodies and faces fully and never converse or sing loud sufficient for non-family members to listen to them.
The doc of the regulation revealed within the official gazette imposes its interpretation of the Islamic Sharia regulation.
- Girls’s voices, it says, are actually thought of as ‘awrah’, or intimate components, and will solely be skilled in circumstances of necessity.
- The orders associated to hijab are described, and it’s stated that it’s important to cowl the entire physique of the lady and it’s essential to cowl the face because of the worry of temptation.
- The regulation states, the ombudsmen are accountable to stop the drivers from enjoying music, utilizing medicine, transporting ladies with out hijab, offering a spot for girls to take a seat and mingle with males who should not mahrams [close male relative/guardian], and from being sensible and mature.
- “It’s haram for unrelated males to take a look at the our bodies or faces of unrelated ladies, and it’s haram for unrelated ladies to take a look at unrelated males,” the regulation ratified by Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada states.
Punishment for these “crimes” can be carried out by the Taliban’s Muhtaseebs or morality police who’ve the authority to detain people for as much as three days.
Spokesperson for the Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani has stated the newly-adopted regulation “cements insurance policies that utterly erase ladies’s presence in public-silencing their voices and depriving them of their particular person autonomy”.
Shamdasani stated the regulation successfully makes an attempt to render ladies into “faceless, unvoiced shadows”.
“These measures are disturbingly just like the Taliban’s draconian rule within the Nineties and supply additional proof that the group has not moderated its method since its return to energy,” the UN physique has stated.
Listing of anti-women legal guidelines, edicts since 2021
The morality regulation is merely the newest nail within the coffin, reversing 20 years of progress and establishing a regime of oppression and management.
The Taliban administration began introducing anti-women legal guidelines simply days after taking energy on August 15, 2021.
Freedom of motion
- August 25, 2021: Girls ordered to remain indoors. Taliban claimed their troopers weren’t accustomed to seeing ladies in public.
- December 2021: Girls prohibited from touring lengthy distances (over 72 km) with no male guardian (mahram) and a respectable cause.
- Could 5, 2022: Stopped issuing drivers’ licenses to ladies.
- November 2022: Girls banned from parks and gymnasiums, with additional restrictions on their entry to public baths and leisure areas.
- March 27, 2022: Girls banned from touring overseas with no mahram and legit cause.
- January 16, 2023: Instructed journey businesses to not promote tickets to ladies with no mahram.
Well being entry
- September 8, 2021: Girls banned from enjoying sports activities.
- March 2022: Girls barred from coming into well being centres with no male escort.
- January 2023: Feminine well being professionals required to be accompanied by a mahram to their workplaces.
Training
- August 30, 2021: Declared ban on co-education and prohibited males from educating ladies.
- September 12, 2021: Banned ladies from secondary training.
- March 24, 2022: Introduced colleges for ladies in Class 7 and up will stay closed.
- December 20, 2022: Feminine college training suspended. Taliban states the order will stay in impact till a “appropriate setting” is established.
- June 8, 2023: Banned overseas NGOs from offering instructional packages together with community-based training.
- March 6, 2023: Institutes of upper training directed to solely admit male college students.
- March 12, 2023: Universities banned from issuing transcripts and certificates to feminine graduates.
Office restrictions
- November 22, 2021: Girls banned from tv dramas.
- Could 19, 2022: Feminine TV presenters, visitors ordered to cowl their faces.
- July 2022: Feminine workers within the ministry of finance instructed to ship male kinfolk to take their jobs in the event that they wished to proceed receiving salaries.
- August 10, 2022: Feminine flight attendants faraway from their jobs.
- December 24, 2022: Girls banned from working for worldwide and native NGOs.
- December 27, 2022: Girls-run bakeries banned in Kabul.
- February 1, 2023: Feminine workers of hospitals in Kabul informed to put on black hijab (Arabic lengthy robe) and masks always.
- February 22, 2023: 4 medical centres run by feminine medical doctors closed as male sufferers have been being handled by feminine medical doctors.
- June 17, 2023: Girls banned from collaborating in radio and TV reveals the place the presenters are males.
- July 6, 2023: Taliban’s Ministry of Propagation of Advantage and Prevention of Vice publicizes ban on magnificence salons [all run by women for women] as a result of providers supplied by the salons have been forbidden by Islam.
Gown code and behavior
- Could 2022: Decree issued requiring ladies to put on full-body coverings (burqas or abayas) in public, with enforcement measures in opposition to male guardians who didn’t guarantee compliance.
- September 2023: Taliban warns ladies in opposition to utilizing Fb, TikTok, Twitter and different media instruments.
Enforcement and punishments
- August 2022: Taliban establishes a morality police division centered on implementing gender-specific guidelines and costume codes for girls.
- November 2022: Taliban reinstates Hudud and Qisas punishments, which embrace extreme penalties for numerous offenses, together with these associated to gender conduct.
- March 2024: Taliban’s supreme chief publicizes reinstatement of flogging and stoning for girls accused of adultery, marking a big escalation in punitive measures in opposition to ladies.
